FOUR-TWENTY PLUS ONE
written by: THE KINGPIN THORNE PETERS
www.ThornePeters.com
written by: THE KINGPIN THORNE PETERS
www.ThornePeters.com
I write this with a heavy heart, as my fate is sealed by my own design on April 21, 2010. Since the oppressive hypocrisy surrounding Marihuana has become intolerable, I will lay down the gauntlet and fall on the sword for all who cannot or will not . . . thus my purpose on Earth.
After partying the night away at a rally of freethinking hedonists at Overton Park in Memphis, TN on the International Pot Smoker Day of April 20th, I will report to 201 Poplar (our local jailhouse) with a blazing blunt in my mouth and my dope sack in my pocket to demand that I be taken to their leader. Once inside their arcane system of injustice, I will stand mute to their mundane charges, as I do not recognize the right of this government to treat me like a criminal for breaking their arbitrary laws. of injustice.
Since I will not relent, I will be held in contempt of court, and since my contempt for a system that favors law over justice will never ebb, I will be in for the long haul. I will stay in prison for the rest of my life before I would ever plead GUILTY when I am INNOCENT. I will accept no writ of Habeus Corpus, so buckle up.
By contending that Marihuana is a controlled substance, I will legally defeat them by bashing them over the head with their own ill-logic. They label Marihuana as an illegal drug so that they can have an unnatural control over our right to choose the pursuit of happiness. But unlike drugs, such as alcohol, cigarettes, aspirins and drugs, Marihuana is a natural herb growing wild until the government chooses to control it even though it goes through no control process. Our country was founded on the concept of limited government intervention into our personal lives in order to prevent the societal chaos this billion dollar blunt hunt is wreaking.
If only 25 million Marihuana smokers would join me, and go chief up at their local precincts, we could confound their system of oppression to the point of extinction and secure a vital personal freedom for generations to come. It is national despotism to inflict laws on personal behavior. You the people need to exercise your inalienable right to mind your goddamn business and no other . . . I know I will.
In order to broaden the scope of my personal crusade, I will personally launch the first annual NATIONAL DAY OF CONSENT on April 21, 2010, so you the people can choose which laws against life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness you wish to fight.
We must find the collective logic to understand that there is a difference between committing a crime and breaking the law. Laws are voted on by man so they are ever-changing, whereas crimes have always been the same and remain beyond a vote. We will never get to vote on legalizing rape . . . a real shame. You can only get away with murder if you do it in the name of God and/or government. You can't steal by vote . . . unless you're a Gypsy.
Once upon a time it was against the LAW to free Negroes; women weren't allowed to vote; interracial couples were jailed unless the lynch mob got'em; abortions were done in back alleys; people couldn't practice certain religions . . . particularly NO religion at all. It is no more a criminal act to sell Marihuana now as it was to sell booze decades ago. This is why laws need to be out of the reach of a political process, because politicians seek to rally a majority to deny minorities their liberties rather than support them. Prohibition is oppression---not only for the individual, but for our society entire.
When the moron majority voted in Prohibition back in 1921, they voted out trillions of tax dollars, which bankrupted the government and created a slush fund for organized crime, enfranchising them into the richest most powerful industry in the world inside a decade. Citizens went insane or blind or died off the unregulated hooch. Innocent citizens were taken out in drive-by shootings and speakeasy bombings. This dramatic loss of wealth sent the nation spiraling down a decade-long Depression that saw 1 in 3 Americans out of work . . . the chaos was merely a prelude to disaster.
Because we were so broke in the early 1930s, we could not respond when Chancellor Hitler began rearming Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty. We were helpless to intervene when he began his blitzkrieg across allied European nations. By the time we exorcised this madman after a dozen years of tyranny and genocide, 20 million were dead-20 million were living in ruins.
Sound familiar? It should, because here we are again---a fortune in taxes going up in smoke on America's leading crop, while the economy suffers. Not only do we have to deal with the direct loss of revenue, but it is exponentially compounded by the fortune we spend to keep this plant illegal. Politicians call for more taxes for more law enforcement then spend 2/3 of it to fight vice crimes---the war to keep us from getting high and laid is unworthy of our land of liberty and puts 100 million lives at risk every sundown.
Do we really need multimillion dollar copper choppers in the air wasting all this high tech police intervention searching for Cannabis? How are we protected or served by this fruitless endeavor? Are we any safer in our communities when they find a dope field? Do people take the bars off their windows when the cops bust a dope house?
The one constant in the universe is the communal stupidity of mankind . . . it has been passed down in tact through time and across cultures. The more people weigh in on an issue the less chance we have of finding the correct outcome. To date, 99.9-plus percent of the world has been philosophically wrong 100 percent of the time about every single solitary issue, aspect and outlook. It has always been the thinking of the few---often THE ONE--- that epically propels the world forward in spite of the pedantic masses. After one of my prolific pontifications that ignores tradition and and eschews convention, I have often been derisively asked: "So you think you're right and everyone else is wrong?" That lets me know I'm on the right track.
Many knew the Earth was round and moved, in spite of the Biblical assertions to the contrary, but ONE visionary scientist had the courage to stand before The Inquisition and face the consequences for expounding a truth the masses could not conceive . . . a declaration that cost him his freedom. Now, every five year old knows what Galileo knew.
ONE unassuming teacher in Dayton, Tennessee dared to break the law by teaching evolution instead of creationism and his arrest launched the "Scopes Monkey Trial" of the century. Now schools may no longer teach creationism dogma because of John Scopes. Often you need not be brilliant or articulate to conjure waves of change---usually it is a matter of finding the courage to speak what a mass minority feel, but fear proclaiming publicly out of a sense of what others may think of them or what they would have to suffer.
I have been publicly vilified for being a Pot Head by people on drugs; by people who have smoked Pot with me or have asked me to get Pot for them. This is why hypocrisy is the one unforgivable sin, because you cannot atone for selling out others to hide your base desires.
We take pride in seeming socially moral, which creates the immorality of laws. People go to church, court, the PTA and decry the use of Marihuana and act as if it is a scourge then go home and hide under the covers taking bong loads. They denounce Pot as if it were a drug then go home and swallow a cornucopia of narcotics which they rationalize with a prescription . . . the way ELVIS did till he dropped dead on the toilet from a decade of prescription drug abuse. No one has ever died of a Marihuana overdose . . . if you could die that way, I'd be long gone.
People don't stagger out to their cars on Weed-they don't commit crimes to get their dope sack-they don't hook their bodies to feed their jones-you don't call off from work because you're too stoned-we don't have to go get our stomachs pumped after a night of heavy toking. How many people have ever been killed in Marihuana-related accidents? Far less than will die from drugs and alcohol today alone . . . then there's all those innocent victims.
Marihuana is NOT a controlled substance; hemp is a naturally growing herb. When we destroy hemp fields we attack the eco structure of the planet. The government is out of control---yet again---disregarding humanity and ecology in the name of self righteousness. The government has lost sight of reality to focus on a crusade that they don't believe in but enforce out of a misguided sense of national morality . . . thus every crusade ever launched.
Once politicized, Marihuana ceases to be a jovial bud and becomes an insidious gateway drug that leads to heroin; rather than being regarded as a harmless vice in its own right, it is mentioned in the same breath with dangerous narcotics. If you smoke Pot, you support the drug cartels. Being a Pot advocate is to condone the failing youth of America. In spite of the intellectualism that surrounds Pot smoking sessions, Pot Heads are depicted as spaced out zombies who can barely mumble incoherently . . . as if we were on Loritabs or Zanex or Oxycotten.
Even though God gave Christians dominion over all the seed bearing plants right in Chapter One of The Bible, Christians demand Marihuana be kept illegal in the name of God---the guy who invented the stuff in the first place! Where in The Bible does your Jesus say: "Thou shalt not smoke Marihuana? Hebrew Rabbis have been smoking hemp and reading the Torah for millennia by faith, so Jesus would've been toking up with the rest of them.
Righteous cops will look the other way or throw out your stash without busting you, out of their own sense of integrity---they signed up to fight crime and bust criminals, so they feel demeaned hassling good people for an innocuous herb . . . and well they should. But police never look the other way for murderers, rapists and thieves . . . they don't take graft for crimes; only for broken laws.
Even responsible doctors now tell their pregnant patients to give up cigarettes and cut back on Marihuana. There is no study that shows smoking Marihuana in any way harms a fetus. We have even dispelled the myth that Marihuna kills billions of brain cells. It's a bad rap all around. Marihuana is like the friendly dolphin caught in the tuna net.
When will the government learn its lessons from the mistakes of the past? Now that booze is legal, the Jack Daniels family doesn't put out a hit on the Jim Beam family to cut into their sales. I don't have the Budweiser people threaten me if I buy Miller products at my nite club. If all drugs were legal, gangbangers would be out of business tomorrow. We would take away the option from a teen to go deal drugs rather than getting an education. Most telling, is that these drug cartels and gangbangers don't want drugs to be legal either . . . when your enemy supports your position, you are the enemy within!
Our government is charged with protecting us from others---not from ourselves. After a hard day giving our blood, sweat, tears and taxes to this government we should be able to pleasure ourselves in the way of our choosing without government intervention . . . unless someone else's good time endangers another against their will then send in the troops and take no prisoners.
I had hoped that our crack-smoking/down-low president would stop the madness, but he wants to lend himself to the moral hypocrisy that bankrupts America; his Victorian stance leaves us vulnerable around the world and unprotected on our streets . . . he's not a man of great moral conscience but he plays one on T.V.; he is clueless about executive authority, but he did stay at the White House last night. Always remember that it is immoral to criminalize immorality.
The only thing more precious to me than my own personal freedom is your personal freedom. Perhaps because I do not worship some mytho-God-thing, my love of Americanism is zealous and I will fight any enemy of the state that threatens to renege on the guarantee of liberty our forefathers pledged to us . . . even if the state is that enemy.
As it was in Vietnam, and now in the Middle East, and next in Mexico onto South America over the trafficking of drugs to eager American customers, we are creating enemies and taking lives to spread our version of freedom by Democracy, which is loaded with legislated values, morals, idealism and religion. If you do not accept our version of freedom your access to freedom is denied.
You see, freedom is a zero sum game---we either have it all or we have none at all. We cannot take pride that we have more freedom than oppressive dictatorships---freedom is not graded on the curve. Our false sense of freedom stems from our right to vote on the ways of our society . . . yet it is that very vote that robs of our right to choose, our right to consent and even our right to dissent.
Until we learn to support the rights of THE ONE then our democracy is nothing more than a dictatorship by consensus . . . we merely traded one monarch for a majority rule, yet the oppression is the same for those told that their freedom is being denied by the higher power of a mob.
Well, I am my own higher power; the ruler of the Isle of Me; a sovereign entity of ONE who cannot be usurped unless I invade the Isle of You. That is the American way---that is what the application of "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" was supposed to be . . . if it isn't hurting you then you are entitled to nothing more than voice your opinion. I have the right to be left alone to gather with my consenting adult comrades to smoke some fucking herb beyond any vote . . . if you cannot support that then you have no business calling yourself an "American" or claiming that we are a free nation . . . not when over 25 million people live one bust away from having their lives laid waste by the Weed Inquisition because they seek the euphoria that Marihuana brings. One of the great joys Mother Earth offers . . . and we thank her by partaking of her bountiful harvest.
At the writing of this, a quarter of a million people are incarcerated solely for Marihuana-related charges---their freedom stolen by the government charged with their protection . . . a million more will go through life with Marihuana-related charges hanging over them and impeding their every chance for advancement in a world that puts us in the same category and facilities with thieves, rapists, child molesters and murderers.
So we will see if one more body sacrificed to this siege will make any difference . . . MINE. I know 25 million souls will if they would just get on board. To quote Benjamin Franklin, when addressing the Continental Congress on the eve of the Revolutionary War: "We must certainly hang together or we shall certainly hang separately." So I will hang first and only hope that I don't twist in the wind alone . . . like Jesus, Socrates, Galileo and the Korean guy in front of the tank. I am content with this destiny. Sometimes you must sacrifice your freedom to protect your right to free will . . . or yours.
If you can't join me on the rack, then have the courage to support my quest for freedom by holding my coat . . . it's really not about the Pot. Remember when you were smoking Pot, and ask if you should've been incarcerated. If you are one of the dozen Americans left that hasn't tried Pot (there's actually one in this queue, but I adore her just the same) then think of someone you know who smokes Pot and decide if the world would be a better place with them behind bars. If President Obama had been popped as a teen crack head he wouldn't be president now.
As a philosopher, I pontificate that there is no value in seeking right and wrong concerning issues of personal choice---like art, opinions are subjective and cannot be subjugated. The onus of a philosopher is to discover what is true beyond opinion. And what is true about Marihuana is that it is a self contained personal choice that has no impact on society until citizens are falsely accused of committing a crime . . . . then all Hell on Earth breaks loose as innocent people are ruined.
So make sure you choose a side you're willing to die for, because this oppression is killing people from here to Columbia and their blood is on the hands of every upstanding American citizen who arrogantly believes they are exercising their rights when they vote to deny the rights of millions of their fellow citizens to do as they please to themselves and with consenting others. If my peaceful sacrifice of freedom doesn't tip the scales then I will go to Juarez Mexico and fight with the cartel against this barbaric Democratic regime that has the evil intent to legislate freedom at the point of a gun.
If you would like to join the struggle to support Marihuana without going to prison then just feed your Pot seeds to birds who will spread the herb everywhere they go . . . let's make Big Brother expend every resource and effort cleaning up bird crap.
So now we have 4-20 as our Holy High Day and on April 22 we worship the Earth, so next year let us declare April 21, 2010 as our first NATIONAL DAY OF CONSENT to fight for personal liberties by turning ourselves in for breaking the law of our choice while committing no crime or victimizing a soul. I'll smoke a joint at the precinct---hookers can walk the streets with a rate card around their necks and when the coppers roll up for the bust, the good Johns can step up and offer money. How many millions indulge in the hooker trade? Let's find out how many millions of citizens our government can criminalize at $40.000 per head. If we overwhelm them en masse we will force them to focus their resources solely on criminals and we will finally have a system of justice rather than a system of law that dispenses unilateral injustice. That's the America we've all been waiting for so now we must commit to thei social revolution so the dream comes true for the next generation . . . everafter.
Always remember to teach your children to Say "No!" to drugs----SMOKE POT!
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