I'm Voting NO! On Ohios' Issue 3 ... On Solid Libertarian Grounds

This piece is off the top 'o my head so if it comes across as a bit disjointed please take that into consideration.


I'm Voting NO! On Ohios' Issue 3 ... On Solid Libertarian Grounds


One would think that if one is libertarian (Note the SMALL "L"!) one would be all for voting yes on Ohios' Issue 3, Marijuana Reform. I for one will not ... And here's why.

The Delaware Gazette, in its' 10-15-15 issue published an article (With an insert of the official proposed amendment literature from the Ohio Secretary of State office.) on the pros and cons:

Pro:

1. Personal choice - Allowing one 21 or older to possess up to 9 ounces of weed.

So what? It still sets limits on how much one can posses.

2. Compassionate care - Authorizes non-profit dispensaries for medical marijuana.

Who pays for those "non-profit dispensaries"?

3. Tax Revenue - Is expected to generate more than 550 million in revenue.

I guess that's what's gonna pay for the above dispensaries ... maybe. What if it doesn't? What if it's not enough?  And even what if it does? Is all that money going to be for the above or wasted on other government programs?

4. Regulated Industry - An independent commission will oversee the growth and sale of weed.

REGULATE! REGULATE! REGULATE!

TAX! TAX! TAX!

GOVERNMENT!

GOVERNMENT!

GOVERNMENT!

Independent commission? If it's government, it's NOT independent!

By the way, the official Proposed Constitutional Amendment literature uses the words "tightly regulated industry" in regard to this commissions' duties.

Con:

1. Creates Monopoly - Ten facilities will have EXCLUSIVE rights to grow weed. Interestingly enough, the official Ohio secretary of state summary document DOES use the word, monopoly!

ONLY ten "facilities". Isn't that nice. Sounds like a GOVERNMENT monopoly alright.

2. Tax rate - A preferential tax rate is set into the Ohio Constitution that can't be changed by legislation like rates on beer, wine and tobacco.

Ah taxes again. I really don't care about the above except that it allows GOVERNMENT (!) to tax it, period.

3. Risk to children - Outlets will be allowed to sell weed-laced products like candy and cookies.

I seriously doubt such products will be allowed by law to be sold to kids. Same limits as in smokes, alky and drugs.

Of course, as we all know, it's best everyone be banned from owning anything (Drugs, weed, guns, books, vid games, internet, media, porn, candy, cookies, fun, anything hot or sharp, etc.). It's for the children after all. If banning everything will save the fictional life of a hypothetical child not related to you then a police state is entirely justified.

Yes, SOME children actually do suffer and die from the actions of evil people. I run the same risk while alive just like everyone else. Howsomever, my and everyone elses' constitutional and God given rights trump statist dreams. Sad to say ... Shit happens.

Callous you say? Nowhere near as callous as some media whore (Or someone trying to score talking points.) exploiting survivors and dancing on the bodies in the name of ratings and market share ...

4. Quantity - See #1 in the above Pro section.

5. Stores - Allows for 1159 retail outlets.

Will there really be THAT many? Who cares? Oh yes! GOVERNMENT does.

6. Will flood Ohio with marijuana.

I gotz news fer ya' pal. OHIO IS ALREADY FLOODED WITH MARIJOHOONIE! It's Ohios' biggest cash crop fer cryin' out loud!

Look ... I'm all for DECRIMINALIZING weed. I'm all for repealing those stupid laws short circuiting natural selection and putting people in jail who shouldn't be there in the first place. I'm all for letting folks commit suicide with their method of choice.

But ... legalize it?

No.

From looking at Mr. Husteds' (Ohio Secretary of State) document, Issue 3 is nothing more than an attempt at a government power grab. Instead of people being left the hell alone, Issue 3 opens the floodgates to more government expansion, more and higher taxes, more curtailment of freedom and a general tightening of the governmental choke hold on everything we already have.

VOTE NO ON ISSUE THREE!

And please don't talk to me about marijuana reform being about "freedom". You're not a libertarian ... You're just a pothead!


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The Capitalism/Socialism Non-Difference

Not meaning to detract from the seriousness of the following
article, but this is the only "socialist" I can stand to be around.

The Capitalism/Socialism Non-Difference

by

Jay Agan


For many years we have been fooled. Fooled with a lie still being used to manipulate us into being good little servers of the system. That lie is the so-called difference between capitalism & socialism.

Difference? I sure don't see it. I do see, not only similarity, but compatability. Several in fact. They are:

1. Both capitalism and socialism view the universe & explain everything in terms of economics and materialism. "Intangibles" such as family, friends, race, ethnic identity, nation, individuality, spirituality have no meaning unless they can be exploited somehow for economic gain or power.

2. Both deal with the individual as part of an artificial collective. With socialism it's "the brotherhood of man ", the community, society, "for the children" , whatever the "cause" they're for or whatever they're calling the hive mind this week.  With capitalism it's the corporation, the team, the board, the company, etc. Such terms are used by those for scoring talking points, pushing agendas & controlling individuals.

Collectives aren't living, breathing entities. They have no mind of their own & do not act volitionally.

3. Both put the rights of the artificial collective above that of the individual.

4. Both look upon the individual as part of a rescource pool. Something to be used then tossed away. The term "human rescources" is something of an indictment.

5. Both use the individual as a statistic, an economic unit. An entry in a ledger to be added, subtracted, multiplied, divided, fractionalized, decimalized, atomized, then ultimately isolated & tossed away.

6. To either, a living, breathing human being is only an object, a thing. Having no value except to that of the artificial collective. To be used in a manner suitable to furthering that collective. To be discarded when no longer useful.

I do make a distinction between capitalism & free enterprise. Free enterprise involves the TRADITIONAL employer/employee relationship. This is where the employee trades his time, skill, experience etc. for whatever pay/benefits agreed upon. The employer can only demand a good job done & NOTHING MORE.

In the traditional employer/employee relationship neither demands anything beyond that. If the employer does go over that line it's capitalism. If the employee, it's socialism.

Capitalism? Socialism? I care for neither. From my perspective I have found capitalism to be more of a menace to me than socialism. I have lived in a capitalist country all my life and have have been treated shabbily by such a system. I do not doubt for one moment that socialism is no less a danger. It's that I have been on the sharp end of a capitalist system and draw my experience from that. After all, no socialist has ever:

1. Lied to me about my wages then shorted me.

2. Layed me off then say I was fired or quit when I tried to collect unemployment benefits.

3. Tried to monopolize my time. (Mandatory overtime, etc.)

4. Spied on me at work, written me up for political incorrectness, thus denying me advancement or having me fired.

5. Demand submission to drug testing, flu shots, no smoking pledges and other forms of privacy invasion as a condition for employment.

6. Report me to government agencies (INS,etc. I was born here damnit!) as to my place of employment.

7. Tried to coerce me into doing something illegal that could put me in danger of arrest.

8. Lie about benefits.

9. Lie about a crippling injury occuring at work thus denying the validity of claim.

10. Tried to coerce me to work in unsafe working conditions.

These were done to me by capitalists. Socialists I do not like, or ever shall, but I'm under no illusions as to the "sanctity" of capitalism, or the oft proclaimed benevolence/benefits thereof. Anyone who does me an injury is my enemy, left or right.

Copyright © 5-17-13 Jay Agan

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It Was the Darn Glue!

Ah ... yes ... contact highs!

It Was the Darn Glue!

For years ... when I was much younger, I built plastic model kits. LOTS of 'em. Cars, planes, military, science fiction, Aurora monster kits, etc, I was into all of it. Wasn't very good at it but build them I did.

When I was actually building them I enjoyed it immensly. There was something about the actual construction of the kits themselves that seemed to compel me to go on to the next kit. Maybe it was the satisfaction in making something out of a seeming jumble of parts. The feeling of accomplishment. Perhaps the "zen" of the puzzle. Wasn't quite sure what it was, but all I knew was the feeling, the mild euphoria, the ... wonder of it all ... Went away when I was done with building whatever it was I was gluing together at the time. The only way I was going to get that wonderful feeling back was to go on & get another bunch of pieces cemented together.

One day ... it hit me as a gradual revelation. It was the dang glue! Now, I had always assembled them in a ventilated area. Or at least as much ventilation as a large cellar room would have. Still there were fumes. A lot. I never liked the smell of model glue so it wasn't like I was sniffing it on purpose  or "huffing" it out of a paper bag. It was with that realization I quit the hobby. Knowing the actual "enjoyment" of something was a false pleasure, I left & never went back.

I remember a "contact high" from wacky weed. Some friends were indulging so I left early. Not early enough it seems. Before driving, I sat in the car for about a half hour before "it" went away. Gotta be careful. Stuff can sneak up on ya ...


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