For those “not in the know,” recently there has been a lot of controversy over a report leaked by the Missouri highway patrol titled “The Modern Militia Movement.” The report, issued by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (a division of the Department of Public Safety), profiles supporters of presidential candidates Ron Paul (Rep), Bob Barr (Libertarian), and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution) as dangerous militia members and links most conservative groups with domestic terrorism. MIAC prepared and distributed these reports to law enforcement agencies across the state. Once the report was leaked on InfoWars and Alex Jones’ radio show, it quickly spread to many sites associated with the freedom movement such as Break the Matrix, The Campaign for Liberty, Restore the Republic, The Smoking Argus, and even The Liberty Roundtable show on the Accent Radio Network. Obviously, people were in an uproar over the MIAC report and called on the governor of Missouri to reject it and demand accountability over who wrote it. All the presidential candidates mentioned in the report also wrote letters to the governor of Missouri expressing their anger and concerns. Initially the governor was in denial, but as public opposition continued to increase, making the state look worse and worse, he began to relent. At first, the Department of Public Safety Director John M. Britt retracted the portions that noted third party and Republican presidential candidates by name and sent letters of apology to the politicians. But soon after, the Missouri Highway Patrol completely retracted the report and is now opening an investigation into the origin of the report.
This is being viewed as a major victory in the freedom movement. It has shown that pressure has worked (as well as public embarrassment) and the people were able to defeat the tyrannical bureaucracies of Missouri and demand accountability. Of course, I was happy to see emails about the report being retracted and won’t downplay the achievement one bit. But as one host of the Liberty Roundtable radio show said, “this is like a football game where we just scored a touchdown and two-point conversion, but the score is still 8-100.” We must take this victory in stride and keep fighting to get back in the game and make it close. Those who issued the report will keep trying to undermine our movement, so we must always remain vigilant and keep fighting against tyranny and injustice.
As a parody of the MIAC report, the Smoking Argus has issued its own report called “The Modern Tyranny Movement” that can be found here: http://smargus.com/2009/03/the-modern-tyranny-movement-smiac-report/. This covers the history of modern day tyranny in America, going back to 1913. Although it was meant to be a parody of the MIAC report, it is quite serious and a good read nonetheless!
“Did you ask me to name man’s motive power? Man’s motive power is his moral code. Ask yourself where their code is leading you and what it offers you as your final goal. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides. By their own statement, it is they who need you and have nothing to offer you in return. By their own statement, you must support them because they cannot survive without you. Consider the obscenity of offering their impotence and their need – their need of you – as a justification for your torture…
“If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders – what would you tell him to do? …
Lately capitalism and the free market have been given a bad rap due to the current economic crisis. Many people who think they understand why it happened blame it on “reckless corporations” and “Wall Street greed” and have been making claims that this has proven why capitalism has failed us. The very few champions of the free market who are willing to speak out in the MSM (mainstream media) are either getting ignored or ridiculed by the pundits who act like they deserve an apology for what happened. For instance, Jon Stewarts recently called out MSNBC over their lack of journalistic integrity and foresight of the economic crisis and specifically targeted Jim “Mad Money” Cramer. Now I’m no fan of MSNBC or any of the big news corporations, but Cramer was an easy scapegoat to pick on due to his sensationalist style and I thought it was a low blow and completely uncalled for. If Stewart would have done a quick search on YouTube he probably would have come across the viral “Peter Schiff was right 2006-2007” videos which show Schiff warning about this financial crisis for the past several years on MSNBC and many other the other news networks. Schiff has repeatedly tried asking the producers of Stewart’s show to let him on so he can clear up the picture, but so far they have refused. I think Stewart’s secretly intimidated by Schiff and would hate to be made out as a fool like Stewart himself has done to many other people (on Fox for instance). [6/11/09 UPDATE: Jon Stewart invited Peter Schiff on his show on 6/9/09, so I retract my last statements as Stewart has somewhat redeemed himself. A video of the interview can be found here: http://www.europac.net/Schiff-CC-6-9-09_lg.asp].
What our economy has devolved to these days hardly resembles the capitalism we once had during the early days of our nation with Laissez-faire government. Now the government can’t keep its hands off the economy and they are so interconnected that its grown to the point of fascist communism (more on this later). In these modern times we have all kinds of different taxes on businesses, thousands of bureaucrats creating new business rules every day, regulation upon regulation that destroys small business and benefits big corporations, NAFTA which claims to enforce “free trade” between countries, corporate welfare giving bail outs and subsidies to businesses that would otherwise fail, complete disregard for private contracts (AIG), and a Federal Reserve which sets our interest rates, prints money, and plays god with our economy. If this is what people are now calling capitalism then Adam Smith is rolling in his grave.
Washington has been doing its best job to bind and gag the free market the past century, and this is the real reason behind our current economic crisis. Those who believe in big government will use this as an excuse to give the government greater power in order to prevent future disasters and to justify more regulations to stop the “greedy capitalists” from running roughshod over our economy. Sadly they are missing the entire point. Bush stated during the end of his presidential term that “Wall street got drunk with greed” to explain how we got into this mess. But why doesn’t anyone ask who was giving Wall Street the alcohol? It was the Federal Reserve!! (Our “fourth” and most secretive pseudo-branch of government). As the MSM and our politicians rail against the greedy corporations, the Fed is getting away with murder. Of course, if you were the Fed and guilty for an economic crisis of epic proportions, you’d keep yourself in the shadows too. As Tom Woods says in his article Supporters of Capitalism Are Crazy, Says Harvard on Mises.org, “This is exactly why, in my book Meltdown, I call the Fed ‘the elephant in the living room.’ We’re not supposed to notice it, and we’re supposed to pretend the damage it causes is the result of wildcat capitalism, unfettered free markets, or whatever other juvenile phrase is currently in vogue to describe the usual bogeyman.”
Doesn’t anyone wonder why all of a sudden we had a bunch of greedy people making mistakes in the same sector of business? It’s definitely not a coincidence this happened! Generally one’s greed is kept in check due to the balancing of excessive risk. But when risk is eliminated and the chance of failure negated, then greed can only rise and this is what creates moral hazards. This is exactly the case with the Fed’s loose monetary policies the past decade combined with government policies and GSE’s (government sponsored enterprises such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) which eliminated risk and promoted bad business in the housing and financial sectors. Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. put it this way, “To better understand moral hazard, consider the case of a gambler going to a casino. If he bears the losses, his bets will be constrained by that risk. If someone were to guarantee him against loss, but allow him to keep the profits, the gambler would have an incentive to make the riskiest possible bets. He gains all the profits but bears none of the losses. One might designate such a system as ‘casino capitalism.’ Current Fed policy has encouraged casino capitalism in the housing market.”
But if our so called economy has transformed into a wretched creature hardly resembling the free market that it once was, would one dare to look at the other end of the spectrum and call it the dreaded C word? Surely we aren’t a bunch of commies are we?! We’ve been told for many years that we won the Cold War, but at the same time the ideals of Carl Marx have been slipping into our system ever since Herbert Hoover and FDR. If one wants to see a pure example of socialism in America, one should study FDR’s New Deal. If you are skeptical of this claim that the US is practicing communism, then consider the 10 planks outlined in the Communist Manifesto and how it relates to us (taken from the website Libertyzone):
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Americans do these with actions such as the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management (Zoning laws are the first step to government property ownership)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Americans know this as misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State “income” taxes. We call it “paying your fair share”.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Americans call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Americans call it government seizures, tax liens, Public “law” 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of “terrorists” and those who speak out or write against the “government” (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process. Asset forfeiture laws are used by DEA, IRS, ATF etc…).
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Americans call it the Federal Reserve which is a privately-owned credit/debt system allowed by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. Most local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) another privately-owned corporation. The Federal Reserve Banks issue Fiat Paper Money and practice economically destructive fractional reserve banking.
6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.
Americans call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver’s licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Americans call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture… Thus read “controlled or subsidized” rather than “owned”… This is easily seen in these as well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Americans call it Minimum Wage and slave labor like dealing with our Most Favored Nation trade partner; i.e. Communist China. We see it in practice via the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two “income” family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920’s, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
Americans call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public “law” 89-136. These provide for forced reallocations and forced sterilization programs, like in China.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Americans are being taxed to support what we call ‘public’ schools, but are actually “government tax-funded schools ” Even private schools are government regulated. The purpose is to train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based “Education” . These are used so that all children can be indoctrinated and inculcated with the government propaganda, like “majority rules”, and “pay your fair share”. The philosophical concept of “fair share” comes from the Communist maxim, “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
I’ll end with this clip of Michael Bednarik, former presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, giving a sardonic and frank interpretation of what Communism is, why it’s evil, and how we practice many of its tenets as stated above:
In the Washington Post today, former director of the Congressional Budget Office Douglas Holtz-Eakin pretty much says it all about the AIG dust-up and much else:
The … lesson is that no matter how bad you think market capitalism is, the federal government has proved it is worse. Congress originally banned these very bonuses, then stripped the ban out of the stimulus bill and is now threatening confiscatory taxes on the lawful recipients. The Treasury knew about the bonuses and vouched for their legality but now wants double the money back somehow. How, exactly, the Treasury expects any straight-thinking financial entity to enter into a voluntary public-private “partnership” to solve the financial crisis given this track record is a mystery to me.
Part of the fun in reading these ridiculous quotes is reading some of hilarious user submitted comments. Here are some of the best and most appropriate ones that echo my same sentiments:
“AIG bonuses = kind of bad.
Grandstanding about AIG bonuses when you signed and approved the bill knowing full-fucking-well that they were going to get paid = galling hypocrisy of the first order.”
“Right. The bonuses are bad… but they were enabled by the bailout, which was/is also bad. More than bad. It’s the goddamn problem. But, then, the government is also bad: maybe 95% of the people who make it up are stupid and the other 5% are actually evil.”
“How about taking back 100% of Congress’ pay?
Good start. I’d also reduce the session to no more than thirty days in a year. Serving in the legislature needs to be like serving on a Jury. It should NEVER be a way to make a living.”
And here’s Ron Paul’s views on this whole mess:
“..Quit Bankrupting this Country, Quit Destroying The Dollar”
This gay marriage topic has been a big issue in California as of late, as well as many other states with similar propositions the past election, and I’ve felt the need to discuss a solution that would put this issue to rest. To solve this “problem” (for lack of a better word), I think we need to realize that it’s not an issue that should be dealt with by government; it’s an issue with religion and the church. Since our government was founded on the principle of the separation of church and state (regardless of how many Religious Right try to meld the two together), we need to therefore take the issue of marriage OUT of the government. The government should just honor civil unions and give the freedom for any couple to have tax breaks and visitation rights in the hospital.
In addition, the whole practice of “marriage licenses” is an anachronistic and authoritarian policy. It was used in the early part of the twentieth century as a means to prohibit whites from marrying blacks, mulattos, Japanese, Chinese, Native Americans, Mongolians, Malays or Filipinos. We’ve progressed a lot these days haven’t we? Now instead of prohibiting people from marrying people of different races, we prohibit people from marrying the same sex.
As a libertarian, I’m very much against the principle of giving the government power to prohibit just about anything, and enforcing certain lifestyles is completely immoral, tyrannical, and unjustified. Therefore, the practice of giving people the “privilege” to marriage is completely out of place for a government, and should be left in the hands of other institutions such as churches. Therefore, if marriage licenses were dropped by the government, do you think this whole gay marriage debate would even be a debate anymore? It wouldn’t. It would be a political non-issue as it should be.
This is a new segment where I bring up bills or laws that are meant to have good intentions in theory, but in reality will do the opposite and result in unintended consequences. As we all know, good intentions are not enough to guarantee that something will actually work, it needs to be thought out and the actual results need to be analyzed and considered. A lot of these bills seem like a good idea on the surface but if you analyze them more closely you’ll find some ugly facts (and discover some powerful lobbyists who know exactly what advantage the laws will bring to the companies they represent).
Bills in question:
HR 875: “Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009” and S 425: “Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act”
The good intentions: To protect the public health by preventing foodborne illness, ensuring the safety of food, improving research on contaminants leading to food-borne illness, and improving security of food from intentional contamination, and for other purposes.
The reality:
Effectively criminalizes organic farming, but doesn’t actually use the word ‘organic.’
Affects anyone growing food, even if they are not selling it but consuming it.
Requires that the state’s Agriculture department act as the food police and enforce the federal requirements. This takes away the states power and is in violation of the 10th amendment.
Destroys farmer’s markets (unregulated producers of food)
Those who benefit: Agri-business giants including Monsanto. The threat of the new standards is that only approved seeds, fertilizers, and farming methods could be used, and if Monsanto gets their way, all farms and gardens will be growing their plants and using their products.
In conclusion, this is what regulation ultimately leads to: greater monopolies by big business and destruction of the little guy, all in the name of safety for the “good of the public.”
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another – their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun….
When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law-men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims-then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter….
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: ‘Account overdrawn.’….
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men becomes the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns – or dollars. Take your choice – there is no other – and your time is running out.”
Coming straight from the horses mouth… (ARTICLE HERE)
The prime minister of Russia, Vladamir Putin, is warning the US that we should learn from the pages of Russian history and avoid “excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state’s omnipotence” (aka Socialism). Ironic?!? It would be funny if it weren’t so damn sad!
Our founding fathers are rolling in their grave, and Karl Marx is laughing it up! Didn’t we fight a Cold War the past half century to defend capitalism and prevent the spread of communism? The USSR fell apart while the US triumphed, making us world’s lone superpower. It’s only ironic that the US turned more socialist as if it was following some pages out of a tragic novel where the hero has a fall from grace. After fighting for so long against evil, the hero has the chance to vanquish it forever and follow the path of righteousness, but then is corrupted by power (think Lord of the Rings).
If there’s an old moral to the story it’s that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Many of our most righteous men entering the political machine become corrupted by the power they hold, using it to coerce and control other people. But a true righteous leader will have the courage to resist the temptation of power. This is NOT what’s happening today when the president’s power is ever increasing. Does this mean we are we having more and more corrupted people becoming our leaders? Not necessarily. One reason is that the other parts of our government, especially the legislative branch (Congress), have decided to be negligent in their responsibilities and no longer keep the executive branch in check. For example, the Congress no longer takes responsibility when deciding whether or not we should go to war and has given that power to the president, albeit unconstitutionally. In addition, our Congress used to have the power to coin money, but now that power’s been delegated to the Federal Reserve, a private institution owned by bankers, with little to no government association or accountability.
Besides Congress losing more of their testicular fortitude, it’s also our fault as the people of the United States in allowing the government to gain more power while sacrificing our rights and liberties. Our founding fathers went to war for independence and freedom after the English king raised the taxes on their tea, arguing against “taxation without representation.” Now we allow unelected officials to create new laws and taxes, the Fed gets away with printing more and more money every day causing inflation (a hidden and insidious tax), and we’re okay with the government invading our privacy as long as it makes us feel safer. Yes, our country become’s sickeningly complacent.
Now, how do we fix this mess? Should we be choosing better politicians? Not necessarily! Our politicians are only human, not saints like we wish they were. Therefore, what we should be doing is working to lessen their power. That way if we get some terrible people elected every now and then it won’t matter when their power is limited. Then most people won’t have to worry about always having to choose the “lesser of two evils” in every election (a terrible way to vote) and can focus on principled people.
To achieve this goal we need to work to “downsize DC” as a popular website, Downsize DC, encourages people to do. When people realize that freedom is necessary and paramount, they will then realize that this means limiting government. The power should be with the people, not with the few. Although freedom comes with great responsibility (unfortunately this means no free handouts from Big Brother), I’m hopeful that it’s still in the hearts of many Americans since this was our heritage and has been passed down in our bloodstream. I’m hopeful that this Freedom Movement spreads the coming years like a wildfire, and that people learn to appreciate it once again before it’s too late.
I recently found a fun new website called http://whitehouse2.org. This site allows you to vote on the nation’s top priorities as if you were president by choosing to either endorse or oppose certain policies that are submitted by users. You can see how many people voted to endorse or not endorse certain issues, and then you can find talking points to support your stance just as if you were practicing to be a real politician. According to the website, “The more people who endorse a priority, the higher it rises in the charts. The more people who join the network, the more clout we will have with the President and the media.” Kind of a grandiose plan to think it can influence Obama in his first 100 days of office, but in reality it appears to be another social networking site with a political bent. But what’s the best part? Getting to argue with people who are stupid! (ie. believing in the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act of 2006, ect.). For instance, here’s an argument I got in with someone when I posted a bulletin on why we should “Legalize ALL drugs”:
With freedom comes responsibility. People should chose whatever they want to put into their body as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. If they infringe on other people’s rights when they are high/drunk, fine, punish them under the law. But in principle, victimless crimes are ridiculously pointless.
Are you serious?? If a person is hellbent on raping someone, don’t you think they’ll figure out a way no matter if it’s legal or not? (by either buying the ruffie on the black market, using force, ect). Hell, chloraform and sleeping pills are legal and can be easily abused to drug someone. With freedom comes responsibility sir. You can’t prevent bad people from doing bad things no matter how many things you make illegal. People will still figure out a way. I hurt myself the other day by hitting my finger with the hammer. Should we make hammers illegal now because they can hurt someone?
People, I am sure, will do whatever they figure they can get away with. My issue is not with that, my concern is with the statement about saying: “legalize all drugs.” You cannot say legalize all drugs because then we/I would be saying that date-rape is ok, it is not. (because it would be included in all the drugs). Even if people are responsible, I am not going to accept the statement to legalize all drugs, maybe some of them.
“You cannot say legalize all drugs because then we/I would be saying that date-rape is ok, it is not”
This is a non sequitur fallacy (ie. your conclusion does not follow from its premises). Legalizing all drugs doesn’t have anything to do with saying date rape is okay. It’s saying that people should have the power to make their own decisions. What you want, nordwind, is for the government to control people. I want freedom.
“Two drugs often referred to as date-rape drugs are GHB, also known as gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, and benzodiazepines (such as flunitrazepam, also known as Rohypnol or “roofies”)”
Certain people commit crimes and hurt others with or without chemicals. That’s reality. You are not going to create a utopian world by denying people a natural right to self-ownership, to ingest whatever one wishes into ones own body (not put a drug into someone else’s body…this is not what this discussion is about!).
What you say is correct, I have no problem with that. My only concern here, specific to this discussion, is that I am not going to go on the record as advocating the legalization of all drugs.
( “Legalize All Drugs” is what this discussion is about. I am not endorsing the legalization of all drugs, for reasons stated previously.)
I’ve posted new content in my Article section called The Illusion of Opposites. I felt compelled to write this article because there’s so much bickering these days in politics between so called liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, progressives and neo-cons, that it’s becoming quite ridiculous. Partisan politics is tearing our country apart and distracting the masses from real issues. What does Left and Right even mean anymore? Most people have this preconceived notion that the right includes Republicans or conservatives and the far right includes fascists, while the left includes Democrats or liberals while the far left includes socialists or communists. But both parties are practically the same these days (which is why some choose to call them the Republicrats). Both want power to control people, both love to spend, and both have interventionist foreign policies. What is a person to do when all their life they have been continuously duped into believing they have to align themselves with one side or the other and the two parties are diametrically opposed? Are we doomed to only have two choices?! I hope that there are still some out there that can think for themselves, have taken the red pill to find the Truth, and have woken up.
“Did you ask me to name man’s motive power? Man’s motive power is his moral code. Ask yourself where their code is leading you and what it offers you as your final goal. A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides. By their own statement, it is they who need you and have nothing to offer you in return. By their own statement, you must support them because they cannot survive without you. Consider the obscenity of offering their impotence and their need – their need of you – as a justification for your torture…
This is a new segment where I bring up bills or laws that are meant to have good intentions in theory, but in reality will do the opposite and result in unintended consequences. As we all know, good intentions are not enough to guarantee that something will actually work, it needs to be thought out and the actual results need to be analyzed and considered. A lot of these bills seem like a good idea on the surface but if you analyze them more closely you’ll find some ugly facts (and discover some powerful lobbyists who know exactly what advantage the laws will bring to the companies they represent).
Liberty Portal 
With freedom comes responsibility. People should chose whatever they want to put into their body as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. If they infringe on other people’s rights when they are high/drunk, fine, punish them under the law. But in principle, victimless crimes are ridiculously pointless.