Dave Hartley
http://www.Asheville-Computer.com
http://www.ioa.com/~davehart
ANTIPROHIBITION campaign
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/4756/grc.html
"Once everything not expressly legal is prohibited,
everything not prohibited becomes mandatory."
| If prohibition ended today, would you start using drugs?
If you wanted to try them, would the law against them stop you? Does the law stop anyone who is currently violating prohibition? When is the last time you heard of a liquor store owner caught at a schoolyard offering kids their first bottle for free? |
Prohibition is based on the myth that, if it didn't
exist, then everyone would become addicted to something like drugs, sex, or
gambling, and civiliztion would crumble.
Guess what folks, it is prohibition itself that is making civilization
crumble. It is prohibition itself that perpetuates the cycle of addiction,
corruption, and violence.
Addiction is created not by a substance but by artificial scarcity
(prohibition) of it.
Removing the profit motive and banning advertising can prevent young people
from being intoduced to drugs. Adults seldom become addicted. Taxation would
provide funds for effective early medical intervention to thwart the few
naturally occurring cases of addiction. Research into genetics indicates that
there are biochemical and physiological variations in humans that predispose
different people to different predelictions. This strongly suggests that
legalization would not lead to an increase in addictions since people so
predisposed are probably already self-medicating despite the existence of
prohibition. The overwhelming majority not predisposed to addiction will not
find drugs at all alluring. Prohibition is a form of genetic persecution on par
with Racism.
Laws or willpower or pshchological therapy has no effect on the small segment
of the population that is prone to true addiction. Most of these people would
have no trouble leading productive lives if they weren't forced into crime or
prostitution to support their 'abnormal', yet certainly not evil, biochemical
limitations. These people are not genetically predisposed to crime or violence.
Only to chemical imbalance similar to bipolar disease. They cannot be treated as
criminals by any civilized society or legal system.
Prohibition diverts potential tax many times over to organized crime and
funds government corruption. Prohibition is simply the IRS for the Mob. And the
Mob runs TV and mainstream media. It runs the CIA. It runs banking, industry,
science, ...you name it. After 50 years of complicity between Organized Crime,
the National Security Council, and residual elements of the Nazis, just about
everything is owned on paper by a terrifyingly small group of people. Many of
them are familiar and ostensibly respectible like George Bush, Donald Grieg,
Ronald Regan, William Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Allan Dulles, William Casey,
Casper Weinberger, and Oliver North. Former President Salinas of Mexico, Manuel
Noriega, Samosa, etc., etc., etc.
Jailing all of those people and their co-conspirators, confiscating their
illegally acquired property, and convicting them of High Treason is what should
be done according to the prohibition laws these very people have been shoving
down our throats. But is that ever going to happen? Never in your wildest
pipedream.
The only thing we still can and MUST do, is abolish prohibition, and end
state secrecy. It isn't too late, yet. Prohibition and Secrecy, not
legalization, are the 'experiments' and they have failed miserably, my friends.
Legalization with regulation, taxation, education, and therapeutic intervention
is not an experiment. It is the only sane and civilized policy, and it has
always worked everywhere for millennia.
It would be foolish to deny that, on the surface, making drugs, gambling, and
prostitution illegal seems to be a reasonable way of controlling their
consumption, for the betterment of the overall quality of life.
Unfortunately, reality is not so simple. It is not an open ended proposition.
Meaning "what goes around comes around."
We cannot unjustly prosecute (persecute) an otherwise productive, law
abiding, and, intrinsically harmless segment of the population without
ultimately doing harm to ourselves. They will, and do fight back. With violent
street crime. Theft. Burglary. Extortion. Money siphoned thusly from the economy
to buy contraband, not only puts tremendous power in the hands of sociopaths
(drug overlords), it also robs vital cash flow from the small businesses in your
community, where the ciphoned local money doesn't get spent. This means fewer
jobs (more crime), and a smaller local tax base. Even the most 'innocent'
members of society pay for it in increased costs for insurance, security, and
retail goods.
At the same time that peace officers are being asked to investigate and
arrest people for crimes-that-are-not-crimes, there is less funding generated
locally to empower them. Federal funding for local police is, not surprisingly
because of the entrenched corruption, only made available if used to "fight
drugs." Thusly perpetuating the cycle and generating ever more violent crime,
theft, and corruption.... Making (arguably immorral) non-violent acts illegal
generates an increasingly downward-spiraling, self-destructive, more corrupt,
and dangerous society, than no regulation at all. The more severe and
draconian enforcement becomes, the higher prices go. This creates more crime and
misery, higher profits for those on top of the pyramid, devastation of local
economies, and a loss of ever more of our precious, yet dwindling, Human and
Civil Rights. Prohibition gives unfair advantage to druglords, and damages the
innocent. It makes the evil rich while robbing us of our Freedom. It protects no
one except those corrupted by it.
Because of years of media brainwashing, prohibition sems like a "no-brainer"
"must-do" proposition. Ending it sounds like an insane way to proceed. But
careful analysis of cultures and countries where few or no prohibitions have
been in effect, reveals quite the opposite. Participation in taboo behaviors we
outlaw, turns out to be much lower in those cultures, especially among
non-adults. Prohibition actually creates the profit motive necessary to get
people to sell to minors who find the 'underground' culture irresistable.
Regulation, as in liquor store licensing, makes it harder now for children to
get alcohol than heroin or cocaine.
We're not asking you to put yourself out to help drug addicts do drugs.
Prohibition already does that. We are pleading with you that it is in YOUR
personal best interest to do everything you can to end the drug war, and other
prohibitions. It is in your family's and your community's best interest, too. In
fact prohibition only serves those who profit from it. (And that includes the
Prison Industrial Complex!) If ending prohibition makes addicts' depravity less
inhumane so much the better. A more humane approach will actually do more to
reduce and prevent compulsive behavior and viloence.
GROW UP and WAKE UP!
If you think prohibition has a positive effect on the standard of living, and wellbeing of society, you are hallucinating.
Join the Green Ribbon Anti-Prohibition Campaign
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles -Abraham Lincoln (1809-65) U.S. President. 
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of
temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond
the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by
legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.
upon which our
government was founded."
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to
Illinois House of Representatives
The sad fact is that Prohibition of relatively safe drugs like Cannabis, Opiates, Entheogens, and even Cocaine, forces the use of hard and extremely dangerous and dibilitating drugs like Tobbacco and Alcohol.
SAVE a CHILD - Don't Be One
The Government is not your parents.
Prohibition, and it's maniacal stepchild, the "War on Drugs," are destroying the fundamental values, goodwill, self-determination, and living standard that "we the people" were blessed to inherit.
The sad irony is that prohibition serves only to exacerbate the very problems it professes to alleviate.
The damage to the "Free World" that this insane collective self-mutillation has brought upon us comes in the form of subversion, corruption, seemingly random "gang" violence and theft, and the resultant fear and mistrust that saps our quality of life.
This in addition to the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of DOLLARS spent or lost by the legitimate economy each year. The increasingly unweildy US National Debt of $6,000,000,000,000 would today easily be a SIX TRILLION DOLLAR surplus if prohibition hadn't robbed us of it.
Never before has one society spent so much to "save" so few.
We have fallen prey to a witchhunt mentality more incidious than McCarthyism, more subtle than Orwell, and on the verge of becoming more tragic than Stalin and Hitler combined.
If you drop a frog in hot water, it jumps out. If you start with a comfortable temperature, and heat the water slowly, the frog gets cooked alive. The temperature is nearly lethal already, what are we going to do?
Find out the truth about how much less harmful "controlled substances," and victimless "crimes" are, than the corruption and violence that their prohibition has created. Then put a green ribbon, linked back to this page, on your website.
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Let the world know there is a better, healthier, more peaceful way to inspire future generatoions away from antisocial and destructive behavior.
If we continue to believe that we must pass laws to make the world safe for our children, no one will ever grow up, and we are doomed.
