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<p class=MsoTitle>What Does �Inalienable� Mean?</p>
<p class=MsoTitle><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he chose the word
"inalienable" to describe something that cannot be taken away.
According to Webster's Dictionary, the word "inalienable" means
"absolute, sacred, and incapable of being surrendered."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:.25in'><st1:place><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jefferson</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> believed that God bestowed on all human beings, life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness as �inalienable rights.� Further, he stated that congress <b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>cannot</b> take away those rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Anyone
who has studied the war on drugs over the last century knows that </span><st1:place><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Jefferson</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> was a dreamer. A large number of self-serving individuals in powerful
positions have talked Americans into giving up those rights for a greater good.
This greater good is an unlikely fantasy called "a drug-free </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyText style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>�</span>Why is it that after 93 years of persecution,
one trillion dollars of our tax money and twenty million prison sentences,
illegal drugs are cheaper, more potent and more available than ever before?
Because it is a war<b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> against what people
want</b>. Prohibitionists fail to understand that <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>enormous</b> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>profits</b> � not
morality, regulates the illicit drug market.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>When the drug war
becomes too expensive to prosecute, and enough of us wake up to the truth �
then we will reconsider the 19th Century policy of education, taxation and
regulation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For more information
or to help law enforcement reform drug laws visit <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>www.leap.cc </b>(law enforcement against prohibition.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>James Wiley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><st1:Street><st1:address><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>48 Woodland Ave</span></st1:address></st1:Street><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><st1:place><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>San
Anselmo, CA </span><st1:PostalCode><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>94960</span></st1:PostalCode></st1:place><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>415-453-8715<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Updated May 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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