Reread That Pesky First Clause Of The

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.

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.

People - Pardon Me, Journalists And Politicians - Have Often Accused Me Of Believing That I'm Above The Law. And Yet, Who Isn't? Everywhere You Prod It, Even With The Shortest Stick, The Established System Isn't Simply Corrupt, It's Unequivocally Putrescent. The Law Is Created By Demonstrable Criminals, Enforced By Demonstrable, Interpreted By Demonstrable Criminals, All For Demonstrably Criminal Purposes. Of Course I'm Above The Law. And So Are You.

Government Is Waging War Against The People.

There's Nothing Noble Or Selfless About Politicians And There Never Has Been. Putting It Charitably, Profiles In Courage Is A Compendium Of Democratic Mythology, Ghostwritten For An Ambitious Young Massachusetts Senator Who Never Did A Thing For Himself If He Could Pay To Have It Done By Others.