It has been mentioned: "Without the quill of Paine, the sword of Washington never would have swung."
Verily, Thomas Paine, alcoholic and altruistic author penned Common Sense--this was what ignited the great American Revolution. The Colonial Press couldn't print enough copies. And even John Adams, who detested Paine, purchased a copy.
Way back then, when George Washington was growing hemp and Samuel Adams drinking large amounts of grog while agitating the British with his rogue group The Sons of Liberty, America was promised greatness; alas, we might have lost true liberty.
The men who architected the magnificent American Revolution were true Libertarians. Yet if you grow hemp today, the Republican judges will put you in prison and you will get sodomized--this is the great liberty that has attached itself to the Conservative machine. Conservative people fancy themselves patriots, yet they might be blind concerning the Holy Spirit of 1776--an actual incorporeal entity brought down from the ranks of heaven.
Conservative means to limit. To pace oneself. It is not synonymous with the fundamental meaning of liberty. For instance: The Drug War, spawned by conservative thinkers violates the Constitution. It is Anti-Constitutional for the American Government to declare WAR upon its own people, yet that is exactly what the Drug War is--a declaration of war by the government upon its own people. DEA breaking into houses wearing masks, shooting the family pet--all for what? Because somebody ingests a substance that gives them temporary euphoria. Big fucking deal. What would the hemp-growing machine General George Washington say about that?
Democrats are no better with their hatred of firearms. Or Bloomberg making the Big Gulp illegal. What happened to: "Live Free Or Die!" It should all be legal--guns, drugs, hookers, firetrucks . . .
This is the United States of America! The greatest country on the face of the Earth. We need to remember our historic nature of LIBERTY and pursue it with as much muster and mojo as possible. People try to duplicate what we once had. People are jealous of our beauty and intellectual fiber. But we are still the greatest.
Sincerely, Mark David King
POST SCRIPT: Oh yeah, my books, offering Libertarian idealism: King's Books!
