I Suggest Due Process, Speedy Trials, And

America Didn't Have A Drug Problem Before It Passed Drug Laws. While Drugs Were Consumed By Large Numbers Of People — The Number Of Women Habituated To The Opium Found In Laudanum Was, No Pun Intended, Staggering — They Were, For The Most Part, Easily Able To Live Their Lives, Do Their Jobs, And Raise Their Families Pretty Much The Way We Do Today.

I Suggest Due Process, Speedy Trials, And Public Hangings.

Human Rights Are An Aspect Of Natural Law, A Consequence Of The Way The Universe Works, As Solid And As Real As Photons Or The Concept Of Pi. The Idea Of Self- Ownership Is The Equivalent Of Pythagoras' Theorem, Of Evolution By Natural Selection, Of General Relativity, And Of Quantum Theory. Before Humankind Discovered Any Of These, It Suffered, To Varying Degrees, In Misery And Ignorance.

It's Often Been Observed That The First Casualty Of War Is The Truth. But That's A Lie, Too, In Its Way. The Reality Is That, For Most Wars To Begin, The Truth Has To Have Been Sacrificed A Long Time In Advance.

Choose Your Enemies Carefully: You'll Probably Be Known Much Better And Far Longer For Who They Were, Than For Anything Else You Ever Managed To Accomplish.