The rights of the American People are being violated by those sworn to uphold them. Not having foreseen the recent ascendancy of the federal government over the states (the potential for which was, however, well known and widely debated at the time), the drafters of our Constitution, when amending that document to flesh out the protections essential to the unimpeded and unfettered pursuit of Happiness, failed to incorporate protections necessary to securing fully the Blessings of Liberty to each and every individual and maintaining those protections ad infinitum. In the XIV Amendment, it is written that, “No State [...] shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” (see here)
While this amendment might have protected the People from overreaches by the individual states (it has failed, as the populations of the various states are continually restricted in the execution of their liberty), it does not protect us from overreaches by the federal government. In order to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, and to ensure that the individual can decide how best to dispose of the only property (that being her body) without which her life is impossible, the Constitution must be further amended to protect her from indiscriminate and unjust actions by the federal government, against which she currently has little recourse.
Put simply, the XIV Amendment must be altered to read, “No Government shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” An alteration to this affect (coupled with an aggressive prosecution of the newly altered amendment) would fulfill at least one of the purposes of government as defined in the preamble to the Constitution by securing for the individual, fully and unconditionally, the Blessings of Liberty (liberty means he has the right to decide for himself how best to lead his life), so long as it is made clear to him that he may not not infringe in any way upon the life, liberty, or property of any other person (the flip-side of the coin of liberty that any rational, free-thinking individual will readily understand).
Therefore, unless you have been found guilty by a jury of your peers and ordered by a judicial body (convened to try your case) not to engage in certain specifically enumerated activities (such as consuming drugs in private or growing them for your own use, getting an abortion, gaining or losing weight, getting tattooed, or any other such things that affect your body and your body alone), you have the constitutional right to do any and all of these things. The only possible justification that the federal government might bring for its blanket prohibitions on certain activities and altered states of consciousness is perhaps that while the Constitution prohibits depriving “any person” of liberty or property, it does not expressly prohibit depriving the entire American population of the unalienable Rights set forth in both of our founding documents.
I hereby call upon the federal government to cease with all policies that infringe upon the right of the individual to do to herself and to her body as she pleases so long as she is not infringing demonstrably upon the life, liberty, or property of any other person or persons. The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of the government of the United States of America is bring about the Safety and Happiness of the People. Until the People are granted unconditional liberty, they cannot ever be truly Happy; until they are granted the freedom to choose for themselves how best to lead their lives, and they are allowed to affect their bodies as they see fit, they are little better off, and just as likely to rebel, as those fine proud Americans who once rose up and threw off the mantle of a government that had lost sight of its duty to those it purported to represent.
Join me in the effort to free the American People from under the yoke of repression; write to your representative in Congress and demand that she or he join in your fight for full, unconditional liberty. Over the last forty years, the People, by continuing to consume whichever drugs they desired, have sent a message to the federal government: We will decide for ourselves how best to lead our lives, and we will not renounce our liberty just because you have declared a War on those Drugs we have as much of a right to consume as we do to partake of alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine.
Ultima Ratio Regum - 場黑麥 John Paul Roggenkamp
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