By: Charles Robert

Charles Robert — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:21:12 +0000

It’s with all my heart that I agree with the well-spoken comment by Bill Harris.
If, however, I were not to agree, or even if the vast majority were in strong, vehement opposition to Bill’s opinions, it would, in no manner, diminish his, or anyone’s natural rights enumerated in the “Bill of Rights”. The thing which has effectively diminished, and/or desimated of our basic rights, is the usurpation of such, by the much later, and completely illegitamate, alleged Fourteenth article in amendment. The Fourteenth amendment was not ratified, but declaired to have been ratified by a rogue and lawless Congress. That such has been upheld by the alleged courts, under color of law, is another of the crimes against the people. Until the people repopulate the Republic, and exercise their rights in the common law, The Democracy will persist until we awaken in a Socialist Dictatorship. The Remedy for this quagmire is neither simple nor easy. It is complex beyond measure, and has been endowed with these charactistics quite intentionally, for the purpose of rendering the remedy for the decay of our union, found in the Fifth amendment, beyond the memory knowledge, and access of those who would invoke it. We, the People have been given a tool by the framers of our supreme Law, sometimes called “the fourth branch of government”, the independant common law grand jury, and it alone is capable of the remedy we seek. The persuit of this remedy is not fun, like tea-parties, rallies, or petitions. It will require a great deal of hard work and dilligent study, but short of the slim-to-none chance of recovering our freedoms through armed conflict, re-institution of the independant common law grand jury, is, by far the best and perhaps the only path to Freedom. http://www.angelfire.com/la/lawgiver/14thAm.html

— Charles Robert

By: Bill Harris

Bill Harris — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:46:58 +0000

One need not travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to ongoing persecution of hippies, radicals, and non-whites under prosecution of the war on drugs. If we’re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance global credibility.

The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as lives are flushed down expensive tubes. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. Behold, it’s all good. When Eve ate the apple, she knew a good apple, and an evil prohibition. Canadian Marc Emery is being extradited to prison for selling seeds that American farmers use to reduce U. S. demand for Mexican pot.

Only on the authority of a clause about interstate commerce does the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) reincarnate Al Capone, endanger homeland security, and throw good money after bad. Administration fiscal policy burns tax dollars to root out the number-one cash crop in the land, instead of taxing sales. Society rejected the plague of prohibition, but it mutated. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment.

Nixon passed the CSA on the false assurance that the Schafer Commission would later justify criminalizing his enemies. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA shut down research, and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use, period. Drug juries exclude bleeding hearts.

The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership or an act of Congress to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. John Doe’s free exercise of religious liberty may include entheogen sacraments to mediate communion with his maker.

Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.

Common-law must hold that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers undersigned that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.

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