YOUR RIGHTS ARE ONLY AN ILLUSION. YOU HAVE NONE.

Since the Federal Government won the war against the states 1865, we’ve known all the last century that a world community with power greater than any state's is not only necessary, it is inevitable, that is, if we are to survive without destroying us all. Hopefully, that will be a democratic community, in which all the states agree to accept and obey the collective decision. The alternative is a world techno-dictatorship, a global penal state armed against itself, in which half of us will wear the uniforms, to keep the other half of us in order. The United States Of America, one nation, is now globally in a position similar to that of Virginia and Pennsylvania back then. Whatever form the new structure takes in practice, or how it is disguised to be presented to a world of homicidal nationalists and religious fanatics, it appears it will not be based on granting to any of us the quaint and idealistic old US Constitution's Bill Of Rights. The USA, like Virginia, will continue to exist as an administrative jurisdiction, but the real power in the world will be directed to objectives broader than the limited interests of US capital owners and US military dominance of the world. Welcome to the 21st Century... our grandfathers' idealistic image of America the land of the brave, tolerant, neighborly, honest, armed, and responsible red-white-and-blue free and sovereign citizen is no longer representative of what is actually happening, in spite of the millions declaring they are ready to fight at home or abroad to preserve the illusion.

As for our "rights" -- as a Libertarian, I've been painfully aware for decades that we really don't have any of those that are not abridgable, and all of our actions and decisions are predicated upon the permission of persons in whom power is vested, that is, in the legislators, lawyers, judges, and politicians, who are given command of the use of force, from the cop's nightstick and shotgun to the atom bomb. The Drug War has always been a good "thermometer" for evaluating how far it's gone. When the system of government is able to examine your life, your home, your possessions, your movements, relationships, business transactions, your records, online activities, phone calls, the contents of your pockets or body cavities, and the molecules in your blood or urine, either secretly or on demand, such that it becomes impossible for you to obtain and consume a joint of marijuana... and then to forcibly seize, arrest, declare you a felon, imprison, dispossess, disarm, and disenfranchise you for having done so... well, the use of such words as "privacy" and "freedom" and "justice" and "rights" are simply fantasy. If they will do that to you over marijuana, just what might they feel entitled to do over issues that justify extreme measures?

James Nathan Post