on acting like a bitch

  The mentality of the average American voter bears certain resemblance to that of a skittish dog rescued from the pound. No matter her physical size or how well she is treated by her adoptive family, the canine will likely never shake the Fear put into her by her abusive former master(s). If when out walking she is spooked, she at times will shake off her leash and bound away at high speed, her face seeming to express an exuberant anxiety. Gracefully eluding all attempts at capture, one of the few options for bringing her back under control is to trick her into entering a vehicle (an action that normally means a trip to the park or some such thing). Once inside the vehicle, she forgets the potential for freedom unbound that lies but a quick tug of the head away, and allows the leash to be bound around her neck once again.
  So it is often with voters in this nation, especially with those who were so scared by the events whose ten year anniversary we will soon mark that they sat quietly by, cowed by Fear-driven propaganda into allowing the Patriot Act to pass unopposed, believing of the lies spewing forth from the suck-holes of power-hungry politicians desperate to expand their base, cheering as we joined the short-list of nations guilty of initiating a war of aggression, re-electing a president who forever tarnished America's long and honorable traditions by valuing the paltry benefits of enhanced interrogation over the unalienable and immutable Rights of the individual.
  A dog raised to fear is unlikely to shake its burden; an individual provided the opportunity to fear will settle gratefully into the welcoming cocoon that fear provides, forever ignorant of the beautiful savagery inherent to mankind, never doubting the actions or the rhetoric of persons claiming to have all the answers, forever trusting any individual who stokes the fires of that fear and who makes skin-deep promises that evaporate immediately upon re-election.
  When the conditions seem right, the voter is likely to break free and to dash about wildly, demanding changes in the status quo through the implementation of untested strategies championed as the solutions to our economic and societal woes, believing with exuberant anxiety in the clever deceptions of the heads shouting on TV, scrambling madly for the first door that promises even the faintest hint of Happiness only to succumb instantly, wild-eyed and out-of-breath, to fear's soothing grip as the shackles of ignorance and repression are calmly reapplied to the cardinal points of the soul.
  It is without question easier for the People to accept the oppressions to which they have become accustomed than for us to venture forth, without a backward glance or the slightest hesitation, in search of new Guards for our future Security. Unlike a tortured and skittish bitch, however, once we have broken free of the chains that have held us in check, we have the capacity to maintain that newfound freedom by consuming news from various unrelated sources, by being wary always of the power of propaganda, and by not forgetting for an instant that, as Frank Herbert said best in his book Dune, “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.”
  Fear in itself is a sufferable Evil, but fear employed by the highest powers as a tool for controlling the hearts and minds of the People is an Evil that has ceased to be sufferable. Freed from constriction, the mind is capable of feats far-reaching and grand, while a mind hobbled by perpetual paranoia functions similar to that of a broken, groveling beast who understands only the bite of the lash.

Speak freely. Stay vigilant. Spread liberty.

Ultima Ratio Regum - 場黑麥 John Paul Roggenkamp

on additional amendment

  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