Last few sentences are the most important IMO, I added the * for emphasis:
"To be precise, the question should be do you favor legalization or decriminalization of the sale and use of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines?"
"A large percentage of Americans will probably say no, mainly because they are law-abiding people who maintain high moral and ethical standards and don't want to surrender to a small minority that flouts the laws, whether in the ghettos of Washington D.C. or Beverly Hills salons. The concern about damaging society's fabric is legitimate. **** But another question needs to be asked: Is that fabric being damaged now? ****"
**** But another question needs to be asked: Is that fabric being damaged now? ****"
Short answer: yes.
That's how events have progressed (read: regressed) to today. Creep. Instrumentalism. They used it to create a leviathan government. It's almost as though the parasitical elites -- purveyors of group-think -- are inching the establishment and us along with it ever closer to the edge of the cliff. We're so close our nose is sniffing at the edge. Like a dog sneaking up on the cliff edge.
All the time they've told us that we need this new law and that new regulation. At the clip of about 3,000 new laws each year. It's been incrementing like that for several decades -- more than a dozen. Telling us that without each year's new laws and regulations persons and society would run themselves and society headlong to destruction -- we'd plunge over the cliff edge. That's their excuse -- not reason -- for proposing thousands of new laws and regulations each year.
Ironically, for decade after decade for hundreds of years man and his society have increasingly prospered. And, as it is now, we continue to increase prosperity despite almost every person breaking several laws each year. A person would think that surely persons and society would have self destructed with so much lawlessness occurring. Yet just the opposite has happened. People have increased prosperity.
Also, how is it that people and society continue to increasingly prosper this year without the must-have new laws to come next year and years after? Parasitical elites proclaim we'll fall over the cliff edge without their new laws and regulations. Yet we don't yet have the new laws to come in 2007, 2010 or 2015 to save us from ourselves. Parasitical elites create the boogieman illusion and foist it on the masses to manipulate them to think they are in constant peril of falling over the cliff edge.
It's the establishment parasitical elites that are a drain on people, the economy and society and they're dragging all three closer to the cliff edge. The cliff-edge that persons via increasing prosperity are distancing themselves from. For it is they -- parasitical elites -- that have created the cliff edge to drag us over. Free people do not move toward self-destruction.
Free people did not intend for this: Congress and high-ranking officials of the IRS have ensured that most people break the law. When not two in 40 accountants can arrive at the same income tax bill for the same family of four and, the IRS help-line answers are wrong 60% of the time, is that not a glaring sign that the intentionally blind are leading the manipulated blind -- people manipulated, usually emotionally via boogie-man "problems" and fears foisted on them -- over the cliff edge.
A War of Two Worlds:
Value Producers
versus
Value Destroyers
"It is a war of rational honesties versus irrational dishonesties."
Unlike truth that has many gray areas, honesty has none.