The Myth of Inalienable Rights: The Tyranny of Legislating Morality

by David A. Nichols

The full title of this little book The Myth of Inalienable Rights as Applied to the War on The Tyranny of Legislating Morality. However, with the present situation of COVID-19 fears, mask-wearing, lock-downs, and possible forced vaccinations, the ideas presented in this book could would apply to that situation also. ( COVID-19, according to CDC statistics, has a 97% survivability rate.) It is my well-studied belief that the so-called war on drugs is the biggest rights violating scheme in the history of the United States. Once the government had convinced the people that it not only had the legitimate power, but also the moral obligation to stop certain drug behavior—because it was immoral—what could the government not do in the name of protecting the people from themselves? Obviously, the people are weak and need a large, parental (read, tyrannical) government to protect them. And the people bought it, lock, stock, and barrel. The reason that I have written this political treatise is to shine the light of inquiry and logic on the fact that because of the so-called war on drugs we, the American people, no longer have inalienable rights. We only have privileges granted to us by the government. If we truly had inalienable rights and, thereby, truly owned the property of our bodies and minds, then, as adults, and only as adults, we would have the right to use, take, snort, smoke, or ingest any drug we wanted, just so long as we did not violate the rights of others. We could participate in any other behavior that we wanted to, just so long as it did not violate the rights of others. In 1989 I was arrested for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine. I was convicted and sentenced to 327 months in federal prison (27 years, 3 months). It was my first and only felony. My prior arrest record consisted of a misdemeanor DUI. In prison I researched the so-called war on drugs which, in fact, is a war on the inalienable rights of adults, and wrote this little book. Later, I escape from prison and was a fugitive for 12 years and 9 months. (That is a story for another time.) I learned how to use a computer and put The Myth of Inalienable Rights on a blogger site under the name D.M. Mitchell. In 2016 I turned myself back in. I was 69 years old and tired of being a fugitive. I got some lucky breaks in the form of changes in the law. So the 9-1/2 years I had left to do was reduced down to 3-1/2 years. Still, I did a total of 18 years in federal prison. Now, I've decided to publish this book through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing to see if there are any people out there who still care about the concept of inalienable rights. People who realized that the federal government is way off the track of the U.S. Constitution and would like to bring it back on it's proper course. Like I said, it's a little book and won't take you long to read. I hope you do. I hope you agree with the message I am trying to impart to all believers in true freedom, liberty, and inalienable rights. And, I hope you want to do something about it.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 10, 2020