Dear Congressman Mooney,
I am writing to urge your support for, and vote in favor of H.R. 1227 - To limit the application of Federal laws to the distribution and consumption of marihuana, and for other purposes.
The so-called "drug war" has been an utter and abject failure in both conception and execution. It has represented, at its very best, a clear and intolerable violation of basic human rights. We may not like that some people choose to debase themselves with drug use, but it remains centrally within a man's most fundamental prerogatives to make such choices for himself. The collateral damages of such use, one of the central arguments made to justify statutes that themselves are felonious, are readily handled by extant law and statute.
The repeal of statutes of malevolent effect stands only to improve the general quality of life in America. Arguments justifying the violation of basic human rights that includes the possession, consumption, distribution, and all other dispositions of such materials fail catastrophically in both their logical validity and basic truth. There is no valid justification for the violation of human rights at any time or for any reason, including "emergencies". That we have decayed as a nation to so low a status as this says nothing good about the ways in which our various national legislatures have discharged their sworn oaths and the attendant duties and obligations to the people they ostensibly serve, which here is presumed to be the people of America, and not some hidden interest.
The fact that the American people have been so egregiously betrayed by these bodies of men sworn to, and yet failed in, their defense of the Constitution pursuant to the protection of all human rights speaks gravely ill to either their intentions, their competence, or both. I am therefore asking you to make good on your oath and the trust of your constituents by voting in favor of H.R. 1227, and to work diligently to get as many of your House and Senate colleagues on board as well.
Countless lives have been unjustly ruined through enforcement of these repugnant statutes which arbitrarily declare the possession, use, and transfer of "illicit" drugs as crimes mala prohibita. There exists no basis in either logic, morality, or even properly considered practicality that validly establishes any authority whatsoever by any man or group thereof, regardless of title or purport, to prohibit, punish, and ultimately murder our fellows, which is precisely what the various drug statutes claim to establish, however falsely.
The resources we have wasted on drug enforcement are literally staggering in their sheer mass. It is high time this unforgivable squandering of both our national wealth and the lives of those whom enforcement unjustly brings to ruin come to an end. Nobody is obeying these statutes who would not have otherwise remained "drug free" in their absence. This is why our prisons are filled to overflowing with the victims of the enforcement of statutes that define no actual crime at all, whereas those actions themselves constitute real and substantively demonstrable felonies against people exercising their basic rights, however disagreeably to some.
Were a bill enacted into law that declared it a felony to wear mismatching socks, punishable by twenty years in a federal penitentiary, would it be just and valid? Assuming you agree that it would be anything but, it should be clear to you that that is precisely what the drug statutes do in terms of their arbitrary address and declaration of "crimes" mala prohibita. It is literally the manufacture of fake crimes out of thin air and the destruction of innocent lives in the process of enforcement.
Can you, as a presumably honest, honorable, and decent man who has by his own choice assumed the mantle of the public trust by becoming our representative in Congress fail to support the repeal of such statutes in all good faith? I certainly hope not, and therefore will once again urge you to vote for passage of H. R. 1227 and make all good efforts to convince your fellow Congressmen to follow suit.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Regards,
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Originally Posted by PatriotOne
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