Freedom Cannot be Licensed
Despite President Obama’s pledge to end the raids, the DEA raided a California collective with 154 plants, Dozens of DEA agents armed with assault rifles and driving more than two dozen black Cadillac Escalades, assisted by four helicopters flying overhead, raided the medical garden, which was in full compliance with state law. Apparently, the narcs have more money than ever, thanks to Obama’s stimulus funds.
Of course, none of this comes as a surprise to libertarians, because we know the government cannot be trusted or believed. Yet, for most people, their response to news of continued raids is that we should organize a letter writing campaign and conduct a beg-a-thon, asking government officials to be nicer to us.
While it is pathetic that freedom-loving Americans should be reduced to beggars and powerless serfs, the future looks even worse, because most Americans have forgotten what real freedom is about.
Sadly, most Americans just don’t understand that freedom cannot be licensed, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties of a free people have restrictions upon them, they cease to be freedoms and rights. Instead, the government becomes like a king, bestowing privileges upon the chosen few and servitude upon everyone else.