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    The Myth Of Inalienable Rights
    The Myth Of Inalienable Rights
    The Myth Of Inalienable Rights
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    The Myth Of Inalienable Rights

    By David A. Nichols

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    We have been lied to. We were taught in school that we have inalienable rights. We don't. Starting with the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the beginning of the federal war on drugs, we lost the right to the full ownership and control of our bodies and minds where we have not violated the rights of others.

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    Any and all non-violent, non-coercive, non-larcenous, consensual adult behavior that does not physically harm other people or their property or directly and immediately endangers same, that does not disturb the peace or create a public nuisance, and that is done in private, especially on private property, is the inalienable right of all adults.

    In a truly free and liberty-loving society no laws should be passed to prohibit such behavior. Any laws now existing that are contrary to the above definition of inalienable rights are violations of the rights of adult citizens which goes against the intent of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the Constitution, and the Bill of rights and should be made null and void.

    It is my well-studied belief that the so-called war on drugs is the biggest rights violating scheme in the history of the United States. Once the government had convinced the people that it not only had the legitimate power, but also the moral obligation to stop certain drug behavior—because it was immoral—what could the government not do in the name of protecting the people from themselves? Obviously, the people are weak and need a large, parental (read, tyrannical) government to protect them. And the people bought it, lock, stock, and barrel.

    The reason that I have written this political treatise is to shine the light of inquiry and logic on the fact that because of the so-called war on drugs we, the American people, no longer have inalienable rights. We only have privileges granted to us by the government. If we truly had inalienable rights and, thereby, truly owned the property of our bodies and minds, then, as adults, and only as adults, we would have the right to use, take, snort, smoke, or ingest any drug we wanted, just so long as we did not violate the rights of others. We could participate in any other behavior that we wanted to, just so long as it did not violate the rights of others.

    The facts are that almost all of the violence caused by the presently illegal drugs are caused because of the prohibition of them, not their mere use. When they were legal, prior to 1914, there was no criminality associated with their use. The same cannot be said of alcohol, a true narcotic drug, and the drug of choice of presidents, prosecutors, judges, and the police. When it comes to crimes of violence, all the illegal drugs put together cannot equal the violence and destruction caused by the use of alcohol and yet it is legal to adults.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLot's Cave, Inc.
    Release dateJun 10, 2021
    ISBN9781005619176
    The Myth Of Inalienable Rights
    Author

    David A. Nichols

    Publisher Note: This particular book is an unusual subject for Lot’s Cave Publishing. The author of this particular book has suffered a great injustice at the hands of his government—a debt that can never be repaid. Similarly, the owners and publishers of Greenleaf Classics were convicted of obscenity and spent time in prison. It is for price David A. Nichols and Greenleaf paid that Lot's Cave can exist today.

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      The Myth Of Inalienable Rights - David A. Nichols

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Foreword: 2008

      The Myth of Inalienable Rights

      End Notes

      ADDENDA

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      Publisher's Note

      Preface

      I originally wrote the following treatise while in federal prison serving a 27 year sentence for not violating the rights of others. I published it on the internet under the name D.M. Mitchell in April of 2008. I was a fugitive at that time.

      In June of 1989 I was arrested, charged with, and convicted of, conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. I was given 327 months in federal prison (27 years, 3 months.) This was a first-time felony. My only other conviction was a misdemeanor DUI in 1986 for which I paid over 1200 dollars in fines and court costs and did 3 or 4 weekends of community service and 3 years of summary probation. When I was arrested for the felony I had 1 month left on my summary probation and that jacked up my sentence by 30 months, two and a half years more than my co-defendant.

      What I did was purely consensual adult behavior with no violence or force to anyone and no minors whatsoever involved. It was not a big operation. You might style it a mom and pop operation. I owned no firearms, although my co-defendant had a 22 caliber pistol loaded with bird shot when we were arrested. That was for rattlesnakes in the country location where our lab was located.

      All right, that's a little background. During the 1990s, while in prison, I researched and read everything I could about the so-called war on drugs, which is, in fact, a war on inalienable rights. I wrote The Myth of Inalienable Rights in the late 90s and sent my typed manuscript out to a friend who made a booklet out of it. I sent copies of it to a few Libertarian contacts I knew and they all liked it but that was it. So it just sat in my locker until that fateful day in February of 2004.

      After 14-1/2 years in prison, and being a model prisoner, I had what is called a gate pass. That is, I was working outside the prison fences. The prison was located on Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. I had made friends in prison with several Mexicans. One particular such friend had recently been released and, before he left, he told me that if I could escape, I would be welcome in his home down in Michoacon.

      Without going into all the details here (that will be another story) I plotted and planned and then on February 2, 2004, I walked away from my outside work detail and went to Mexico. The border was only 3 miles away. Not quite that simple, but that will suffice for now.

      I spent 2 years in Mexico and things weren't working out as I had expected, so I came back to the United States. (That is another interesting bit of my complete story that will have to be told later.) I spent another 10 years and 9 months as a fugitive in the U.S. During that time I learned how to use a computer and I found a blogging service on which I could publish The Myth of Inalienable Rights. And there it sat for years. I don't know how many people read it, but only six commented on it. Of course, I didn't know anything about how to drive traffic to my blog. I wanted people to read it, lots and lots of people, and agree with me (of course) that the federal government had exceeded its constitutional bounds and demand that the unwinnable, rights violating war on drugs be stopped. Naive? Yes, but with the faith of a true believer.

      Then, on November 3, 2016, I decided to stop being a fugitive and turned myself in. I had about 9-1/2 years left to do on my sentence. I was 69 years old so I was looking at being nearly 80 before I got out of prison.

      However, I was lucky, in three ways. First, for reasons unknown to me, the federal prosecutor decided not to prosecute me for escape. That would have added anywhere from 1-1/2 to 5 years to my sentence, but most likely just 1-1/2 because my walk away escape presented no threat or endangerment to anyone.

      Second, there had been a change in the

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