Rules Force us to Submit

"A crackdown on marijuana cultivation in Mendocino National Forest that began two weeks ago so far has resulted in 100 arrests and destruction of 468,960 pot plants, (Did they count that many plants? What a waste of taxpayer money.) federal officials said Friday in Ukiah."

The more rules we live under the more rule enforcers we must employ with excellent pay and benefits. The rule enforcers can retire at age 55, ten years of less work than the private sector. Plus, rule enforcers get more sick time and personal time from work than does a private sector employee. The government employees that work in my city parks work so slow they should be arrested for loitering.

The link above to a story about the government mob rule enforcers arresting people for growing plants will insure jobs for government; judges, bailiffs, police, prison guards, prosecuting attorneys, and even private attorneys as defense attorneys. I suspect the private attorneys all like having as many rules as possible because that insures they will have plenty of work in defending the rule breakers from the mob.

Do you own yourself or does the mob own you? Why have a rule that involves voluntary transactions, a buyer buys pot from a seller and smokes the pot? No harm has been done to another person so why is there a rule against growing pot and why is there a rule against smoking pot? Because the more rules that exist the more rule enforcers we have. The more rule enforcers that exist the more power they have in keeping the rules in place and seeing new rules enacted. New rules require more enforcers so the mob grows in power.

The best way to keep the sheep in submission is to make everything compulsory or prohibited. That way the mob can always use coercion or the threat of coercion to keep the subjects in line. There are so many federal laws that no one can name the exact amount. Then there are the state and local laws that we are subjected to. And we call this a free country!

It was not the North Korean Communists, nor the North Vietnamese, nor any of the other fictional enemies of the U.S. that took away our freedoms. It was Americans that took away our freedoms, one election at a time.

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Charles Tolleson