Thank You, Mr. President, for Lengthening My Leash by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-10-28 at 01:18:45 )

Thank You, Mr. President, for Lengthening My Leash by Jacob G. Hornberger!

Three weeks ago, President Biden issued a mass pardon for people convicted of federal marijuana possession. His leftist supporters praised and glorified him for his act of extreme compassion and generosity.

Never mind that there was no one incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for simple possession of marijuana. Never mind that President Bidens pardon did not extend to people serving time in the federal pen for possession with intent to distribute. Never mind that it did not extend to people who were incarcerated for distributing marijuana to people who wanted it. Never mind that his pardon did not extend to people serving time for possessing or distributing other drugs.

And never mind that his former boss, President Barack Obama, did the same thing when he was president back in 2016, after which the drug war continued, just as it is continuing after President Bidens pardon. All that mattered was that President Biden had lengthened the federal leash a bit on American serfs - the leash that came with the war on drugs when it was launched decades ago.

Let us get something very clear: A genuinely free society is one in which people are free to ingest whatever they want. It does not matter how dangerous it is or how harmful it is. No government, including the United States government and the state governments, has the legitimate authority to punish anyone for ingesting what public officials consider should not be ingested.

It is the same with distribution. People have the right to give away or sell whatever they want to whomever they want, regardless of whether it is cocaine, heroin, marijuana, meth, tobacco, alcohol, or whatever. No government has the legitimate authority to control, regulate, or punish such transactions.

Public officials are not our daddies or our mommies. Sure, I can understand a parent prohibiting his child from putting bad things into his or her mouth. That is different. That is a child. With drug laws, we are talking about adults.

There is no way that people living in a society with drug laws can legitimately be considered free. It is not a coincidence that people in Russia, China, North Korea, and Cuba live in societies in which their governments have drug laws.

The problem with so many United States of Americans is that they have come to view themselves as serfs. They have a serfdom mentality. That is why many of them are praising and honoring President Biden for his compassionate and generous act. "Thank you, Mr. President, for lengthening my leash," they exclaim.

They simply cannot break free of their serfdom mentality by demanding that President Biden and other federal serf-masters repeal all federal laws that criminalize the possession or distribution of any and all drugs, pardon everyone who has ever been convicted of such crimes, expunge their records, and apologize to them on behalf of all the people who foisted this travesty on our country.

At that point, the United States of American people, in an act of compassion and generosity, could consider whether to pardon President Biden and his statist ilk for their drug-war destruction of life, liberty, and property.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!