On Merry-jew-wanna

Some douchebag on a blog somewhere inquired "If marijuana is useful as medicine, why isn't Big Pharma on board with it?"  This was a comment left some time back, so I'll answer it here.  There are two reasons the legal drug cartels don't want marijuana legalized:


#1:  Profit.


#2:  Profit.


#1:  Marijuana is not addictive.  Period.  Full stop.


Now, you can argue that it's psychologically addictive, but people can get hung up on anything.  Food, sex, work, psychotherapy...hell, you could even make the case that being devoutly religious is a form of psychological addiction.  Regardless, marijuana is not, in any way, physically addictive.  What are the withdrawal symptoms?  "Dude, I wish we had some more pot."  That's pretty much it.


Compare that to most Big Pharma antidepressants.  My wife got off of Effexor, and it was three months of absolute hell for her.  It scrambled up her brain seven ways from Sunday.  In the midst of it, she said, "If this is what heroin withdrawal is like, I understand junkies completely."  No, love, it's not like heroin withdrawal.  That takes three days, not three months.


That's what they want.  They want addiction.  They want withdrawal symptoms so horrific you'll never want to get clean.  You'll be on their drugs for the rest of your life, and paying them handsomely for it.  Which brings us to...


#2:  Availability.


With marijuana, you find a strain that works for you.  You buy the seeds, put them in dirt, add water and wait.  In a couple of months, you have your very own never-ending supply that you never have to pay anyone for ever again.


Where's the profit in that?  Big Pharma doesn't want you using something you can grow and make yourself .  They want you using their compounds, which have to be synthesized in huge laboratories, and that they're the sole source of.


To answer this guy's question, Big Pharma doesn't want marijuana legal for the exact same reason the other drug cartels don't.  It would kill their profits.


C'mon, you really think these companies give a damn what they're doing to you?  They're no different than the snake-oil salesmen of centuries past.  They want you to buy what they're selling, and damn the side effects.  I've seen marijuana help people, and if some folks want to use it as a recreational substance, it's none of your, my, and especially not the government's business.  And I'm still waiting for someone to point out where in the Constitution the Feds are given any authority to regulate any drug at all.


Oops, my bad.  I was still stuck in that mindset that liberty and the rule of law mattered.  Carry on.

With apologies to Edgar Friendly

"I've seen the future, pal.  Ya know what it is?  It's a twenty-seven year old virgin sittin' alone in his flannel onesie, drinkin' a cup of hot chocolate and thinkin' about health insurance!!"

The system isn't broken...

(WARNING:  Harsh, but very deserved, language)

The system is working exactly the way it's supposed to--you just don't understand its true purpose.

Twenty years ago I was a libertarian. I thought the system could be reformed. I thought that some parts of it "worked"… whatever that means. I thought that the goals were noble, even if not often achieved.

The older I get, the more I see, the more I read, the more clear it becomes to me that the entire game is rigged. The leftists and the rightists each see half of the fraud. The lefties correctly note that a poor kid caught with cocaine goes to jail, while a Bush can write it off as a youthful mistake (they somehow overlook the fact that their man Barrack hasn't granted clemency to any one of the people doing federal time for the same felonies he committed). The righties note that government subsidized windmills kill protected eagles with impunity while Joe Sixpack would be deep in the crap if he even picked up a dead eagle from the side of the road. The lefties note that no one was prosecuted over the financial meltdown. The righties note that the Obama administration rewrote bankruptcy law on the fly to loot value from GM stockholders and hand it to the unions. The lefties note that Republicans tweak export rules to give big corporations subsidies. Every now and then both sides join together to note that, hey! the government is spying on every one of us…or that, hey! the government stole a bunch of people's houses and gave them to Pfizer, because a privately owned for-profit corporation is apparently what the Constitution means by "public use".

What neither side seems to realize is that the system is not reformable. There are multiple classes of people, but it boils down to the connected, and the not connected. Just as in pre-Revolutionary France, there is a very strict class hierarchy, and the very idea that we are equal before the law is a laughable nonsequitr.

Folks, it's time to face the facts.  As I've said time and again, we're not voting our way out of this.  Do you now understand why?

Words of wisdom

If you carry gun and brain at same time, you do not look for trouble too.

I'm getting dizzy.

Sultan Knish explains the foundations of the so-called "intelligence" that Oppressives are convinced they have.  It would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic:

Liberal intelligence exists on the illusion of its self-worth. The magical thinking that guides it in every other area from economics to diplomacy also convinces it that if it believes it is smart, that it will be. The impenetrable liberal consensus in every area is based on this delusion of intelligence. Every policy is right because it's smart and it's smart because it's progressive and it's progressive because smart progressives say that it is.

Progressives manufacture the consensus of their own intelligence and insist that it proves them right.

Imagine a million people walking in a circle and shouting, "WE'RE SMART AND WE'RE RIGHT. WE'RE RIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE SMART. WE'RE SMART BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT." Now imagine that these marching morons dominate academia, the government bureaucracy and the entertainment industry allowing them to spend billions yelling their idiot message until it outshouts everyone else while ignoring the disasters in their wake because they are too smart to fail.

RTWT.  This is why you can't have any sort of debate with Oppressives.  They're terminally convinced of their own overwhelming intelligence, and they don't need no stinkin' evidence to prove it.  They've voluntarily rejected objective reality in favor of a horribly overinflated and completely undeserved sense of superiority.  They're willfully insane, and therefore, attempting to introduce them to logic and reason is on the level of pissing on a forest fire.

There's no reasoning with the insane, so let's just ignore these fools and get on with our lives.

From Kalifornia, even...

This Assemblyman hits it square on the head:

Not since 1776 have Americans had more cause to revolt. The long train of abuses number far more than the original 26 levied against one tyrannical king: King George. Today, tens of thousands of tyrants rule over legions of government agents, whose sole purpose has become perpetuating and growing their state-sanctioned fiefdom.

...If you want to control where people live and work, you must control the water supply. It is that simple. From there you can control almost every aspect of their lives. It does not take a genius to see how diabolical a government can become when they control the money supply, the food supply and now the water supply.

...This arrogant disregard for the Constitutional restraints on government’s power is endemic. A year ago, it was the DHS study that identified the greatest terrorist threat was you; if you are a member of a patriot group, if you oppose abortion or if you love liberty too much. So when that agency buys billions of rounds of ammo while trying to take away my right to defend myself and my family and my freedom, I become even more skeptical of government.

RTWT.  Sums everything up nicely. 

Now...what are we going to do about it?

(HT WRSA)

Context is everything

Great observations on Phil Robertson's commentary:

In essence Phil was trying to convey the idea that sin separates us all from God, anyone’s sin, including his own, and society’s increasing acceptance of sin means that they are warring against God. He put homosexuals on no different footing than any other person, including himself.

Emphasis mine.  Seriously, RTWT.

Why we laugh at them

I'm going to show you two pictures.  These were taken in the restroom of a government warehouse.

Not a public building, mind you--a warehouse.  Somewhere you wouldn't expect anyone but government employees to be.

I shit you not, this is true.

These are the people who think they're qualified to run our lives.  Not only do they have to be reminded not to drink out of the toilets, and not only do the toilets have to be flushed automatically(are they incapable of understanding the concept of a flush handle?), but they didn't even remember to refill the butt-gasket dispenser.

T.L. DAVIS IS BACK!!

Now, this is what I call a Christmas present!!

As the first post on this new blog I thought it appropriate to explain a little about its purpose and point of view.

I have been deeply involved in one way or another in the fight for liberty the past decade and generally involved in the struggle since the late 1980's. I wrote a booklet called the Constitutionalist and while that helped some to understand the fight, it did not do enough. I have organized events in Washington DC, to no avail. I have written extensively about the legal case for the Constitution and against the tyrants in government and the tyranny has only picked up momentum.

All the while I have known deep down that it went further than some document scratched out by the founders in the heat of a Philadelphia summer.

Welcome back, brother!!

Mr. Williamson appears a bit irked.

And I can't blame him.  The fact that this Bateman asshole even got into the United States military is a nauseating indictment of how far down the road to Hell we've traveled.

So, the list of things you suck at includes law, business, and being a military officer.  You're good at throwing tantra, however.  Maybe you should get a job with CAIR or PETA.  They're about your speed.

Seriously, Bob, how the f*ck did you get into the military?  I thought incontinence was a bar to service.  I don't think I've ever encountered a bigger pussy, and I first enlisted in the doldrums of the mid 80s and dealt with USAF supply who hated "camping" with the engineers.

Death threats?  You threaten to ignore the Constitution based on your own retarded misreading, to ignore SCOTUS, threaten military violence against dissenters, and you wonder why you're getting death threats?  Guess what:  That's EXACTLY the purpose of the Second Amendment—so fascistic little shitweasels like yourself can be shot, tossed into a ditch, and anointed with beer, after it takes a short detour through our kidneys.  There are about 100 million gun owners and families.  Want to bet on the odds of one of them shooting you down like a rabid dog?

I can only find one bright side(outside of MZW's inspired evisceration):  If this thing is representative of the state of our current military, then come the revolution, our victory will likely be swift and decisive.