The Right to One's Own Mind
When the Founding Fathers wrote The Bill of Rights in The Constitution of the United States of America, they tried to cover the areas in which government could violate the Natural Individual Rights of Man. For the most part, those Revolutionary Americans were very successful; and their Document led to the Greatest Individual Rights Respecting Government in History. However, unfortunately, the Founders left out one Crucial Protection that, I argue, needs to be added: that being, The Right to One's Own Mind.
The Right to One's Own Mind covers several areas of possible abuse. Politically, it establishes Standard Intellectual Property Rights--as well as the Ownership and Property of Thought Produced Goods.
Some may argue that including such a phrase as The Right to One's Own Mind is unnecessary or obvious. However, anyone who is familiar with my story, as explained in my blog, will realize that there now exists in America a mind-altering, institutionalized system that is very wrong. The Revolutionary Founding Fathers never conceived of such substances as powerful psychiatric medicines that could wreak havoc against mind and body with their side-effects. Neither did they foresee the invention of syringes that can be wielded by government to inject those physical chemicals into the biological systems of Man. I am confident that had the Founders thought of this possibility, The Right to One's Own Mind would have been written into both The Bill of Rights, as well as The Declaration of Independence.
One final area concerning The Right to One's Own Mind is the criminal realm. The controversy between the morality of legalizing dangerous drugs verses maintaining many as illegal does not always discuss the scenario of the ease in which either criminals or covert government can cause dangerous chemicals to enter one's bodily system and mind, or poison one's food or drink. Personally, I side with the legalization laws; however, I do support very severe felonies and long prison sentences against those who violate The Right to One's Own Mind.
Paul Wharton
American Galileo
