Richard Boddie for U.S. Senate

To lower the so called crime rate significantly and to allow citizens
to feel safer I would work to totally decriminalize all substances
that can be consumed by free citizens, and seek to abolish and repeal
all laws that prevent honest non-criminal free sovereign citizens from
defending themselves ("by any means necessary"), or their honestly
acquired property.

Since all human beings own themselves, they alone should determine
what goes into their bodies. _When the actions of any person violate
the rights of another they should be held accountable._ That is not
the case today.

The majority of people in prison today throughout the nation are
incarcerated as a result of "drug prohibition" related offenses. Much
of the fear of citizens today is a result of the policies of the
various government agencies, a _lost_ "war on drugs", with Czar and
all, and a total disregard for the rights of citizens through civil
asset forfeiture, illegal searches of innocent citizens, and turf wars
that create mass violence in the control of high-priced "goods" and
services. THERE IS A WAR ON CITIZENS.

Armed citizens are safe citizens. Plus, the criminals don't know who
might be.

Criminals who violate life, liberty, or property of others by threat,
force, or fraud, be they street thugs, S&L robber barons, politicians,
abusive law enforcement officials, or "regular criminals" should be
aggressively pursued, arrested, prosecuted to the full extent of the
law, and removed from free society (or even "caned"). Our criminal
justice system should confine itself to these matters. Privatization
of penal institutions would reduce costs, which today are another
vivid example of government waste.

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