We live in a lunatic asylum .. the lunatics being us.

For believing, we ever lived in a "free" country. As long ago as the reign of His Rotundity – the second president of the United (at bayonet-point) States – people were being dragooned off the street and roughly thrown into cages for having annoyed the powers-that-be. Or who were deemed "dangerous" by the powers-that-be? This was more than 200 years before The Chimp came along with his squinty-eyed pronouncements about "the enemies of freedom" and being either "with us" or "against us."

Not much is taught in government schools (for the obvious reason) about the Alien and Sedition Acts – or other such clear evidence of a disconnect between what we are told and what actually is.

For example, why should a free man have to worry about prosecution for "possessing"anything? In what way does the mere fact of "possession" entail a harm caused to some other person?

How is it that a free man can be told – at gunpoint – what he may not put into his body?

I refer, of course, to the lunacy that is the "war" on some (arbitrarily decided upon) "drugs."

Of all the many things wrong with America, this is perhaps the most obvious – and yet, the one most people seem to have trouble appreciating. A cop who drinks alcohol – who possesses and consumes this drug – is legally empowered to throw people in a cage for possessing or consuming that drug.

Or even if not.