Whether Hunter Biden used drugs and whether Hunter Biden owned a gun were never any of the US government’s business.
The right to smoke, snort, inject, or otherwise ingest any substance one pleases is a natural human right that exists independently of, and supersedes, government edict.
The right to acquire and possess arms — of any kind — is likewise a natural human right that exists independently of, and supersedes, government edict.
All people had those rights before the Constitution was ratified, and all people will still have those rights after the Constitution and the government claiming that Constitution as the basis for its power, have disappeared.
Those rights belong to you. They belong to me. They belong to Hunter Biden. And they belong to the hundreds of thousands of Americans currently incarcerated for exercising those rights.
If you commit a real crime while under the influence of drugs, you’re responsible for that crime.
If you commit a real crime using a firearm, you’re responsible for that crime.
But neither using drugs, nor possessing a firearm, the two in combination, are real crimes. They’re fake “crimes” manufactured by politicians. Ditto the “crime” of lying to those politicians by way of exercising your rights without their permission.
Biden should break out his pardon pen for his son — and for all the other prisoners of the US governments wars on drugs and guns.
Thomas L. Knapp is director of the William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism.
