Time For The Pro-Marijuana Community To Declare The U.S. Government To Be An Illegal Government

Up to this point in time in the United States, the pro-marijuana movement has been an abysmal failure. The possession and use of marijuana is just as illegal, if not more so, as it was thirty years ago. Lead organizations like NORML, MPP, etc..., are little more than useless. There isn't any reason to believe that anything's going to change anytime soon.

What the movement lacks, and always has, is teeth. There are no teeth in the movement's approach to achieving its goals. The mundane marijuana-is-safer-than-alcohol arguments just bring a deaf ear from government officials.

Clearly, what is desperately needed are arguments that have some teeth in them, ones that are certain to get the government's attention. Well, there's actually a really superb one out there for accomplishing just that:

The pro-marijuana community should inform the government that if it doesn't initiate some form of decriminalization of the adult possession and use of marijuana, the community will declare it to be an illegal government.

Now, wait, wait. We know what you're thinking. Someone "got off the elevator between floors," right? Actually, no one got off the elevator between floors here. There really is an ironclad, undisputable, valid argument to back up the claim that the U.S. government is an illegal government.

But before we continue, we want to make clear that no one is calling for the violent overthrow of the government. We're merely pointing out a valid, undisputable fact that seriously calls into question the very legality of the government and most of what it does. And herein lies the gist of what we're talking about:

What do you see when you look at the individuals who make up the U.S. Congress? What you see is 535 examples of someone who had a golden opportunity to intellectually and socially mature during childhood, what we here at the Unintimidated Press refer to as pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies. In case after case, without exception, that we looked at, what we saw was an individual who had achieved academic credentials that could only have been achieved by the age that they were if the individual in question had experienced the pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella baby childhood.

And that's the way it's always been with the congress. No one who ever served in it throughout the entire history of the United States ever came within a light-year of the reality of the system.

So what's wrong with that?

Simple.

What are a significant number of the decisions that congress makes? Social or moral judgment calls. The plain and simple truth is that a significant number, if not the outright majority, of the decisions that congress makes fall under the category of social or moral judgment call. Indeed, the question of whether it should be illegal for an adult to possess or smoke marijuana is strictly a moral judgment call.

Because a significant number of the decisions that congress makes are moral judgment calls, and because the congress is typically made up of nothing but a bunch of pampered, bowl-of-cherries, Cinderella babies, do you think it's safe to say that it sends up a red flag?... Hello?... Is anyone there?...

Should it always be the people who had the pristine-like Nancy Reagan experiences who get to cast their moral judgment on everyone else all the time? Many of the people in this country who smoke pot grew up under circumstances that made it automatic that they would become involved with marijuana. The easiest thing that it is for people who escaped the reality of the system to do is to stand back and point the finger at the ones that didn't and say, "do you know you're messed up because you smoke pot?" Does anyone believe that the pampered, bowl-of- cherries, Cinderella babies of congress would've faired any better if it had been them who had experienced reality? Some of the people in this country who smoke pot grew up under circumstances that would've taken the life of the average member of congress before he/she ever made it to their 18th birthday.

Yet day-in and day-out, year-in and year-out, decade-in and decade out, it's always the people who skated through, who never had to face anything, who can't understand why everyone else isn't just like them, who get to sit in moral judgment of everyone else all the time.

It doesn't take a genius to realize that this constitutes an unjust and immoral situation. It also doesn't take a genius to recognize that it also constitutes a major flaw in the American system of government. A situation where it's always the pampered wonders who had the pristine-like Nancy Reagan experiences who get to cast their moral judgment on everyone else all the time clearly relegates the status of the United States Government to being unjust and immoral. And a government can be so unjust and immoral as to raise questions about its very legality.

If you pour over the annals of human history, you'll be hard pressed to find an example of an unjust and immoral government that had any legal validity. In fact, virtually all went the way of the dinosaur. And that's putting it mildly.

We Americans harbor serious hallucinations about our government. Specifically, we have a tendency to believe that because our government is democratically elected it's free of any serious flaws. However, the idea that democratically elected governments can run amok isn't new. Why do you think the founding fathers created a system of checks and balances when they laid down the blueprint for the federal government? They knew that even democratically elected governments can get out of control.

And that's exactly what the situation is, and has been, in Washington. You have 545 Nancy Reagan clones, counting the president and the Supreme Court, filling up the prisons or ignoring the constitution because they can't understand why everyone else didn't turn out just like them. A rancid, unjust and immoral situation.

We urge the pro-marijuana community to serve notice on the government that if the government persists in waging its insidious war against hardworking, productive people then the pro-marijuana community will declare the government to be an illegal government. And we firmly believe that when the government sees the rock-solid foundation that accusation is based on, it won't be turning a deaf ear anytime soon.

(Anyone who's associated with the pro-marijuana community who doesn't believe that this approach has the government squirming like a toad should read about the historic capitulation from the government that this editorial sparked) cave in

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