I asked that question when I was being massively busted for growing plants (see 'The Jah Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at www. libbyhome. blogspot. com or myspace/jahdep).
About 20 members of the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Unit was coming at me, armed with M-16's, dressed in military camouflage uniforms. A loaded pistol, safety off, was stuck in my face. My plants were being uprooted. My life was being uprooted. There was a helicopter hoovering overhead.
I had been ratted by someone whom I had considered to be a good friend who had informed on me for a $5,000 taxpayer-paid bounty.
The "major crime" I was being arrested for was growing 56 cannabis plants, a plant that (according to the archeological evidence) has been cultivated by people for at least 14,000 years.
It is the corporation not the Human agenda that makes plants illegal, that rewards the person who informs against their neighbor.
I could see with a terrible clarity what our United States of America has become.
I asked WWJBD? I wished that I had a rocket launcher. And I suspected, the way John Brown suspected, that people may have to be hurt or killed before intolerable injustice is redressed, before slaves are made free.
The national history that has culminated in Barak Obama's hopeful, joyous triumph is definitely not all puppy dogs, ice cream, Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King.
Everyone is seeing the hand of Lincoln, of King in this moment. I see the bloody, uncompromising, fearless hand of Brown, whose truth goes marching on.
Brown is the only true revolutionary in our American History. He is the single most important person in the liberation of the slave, in bringing truth to the face of power, in bringing forth this moment.
His is the only correct posture in the face of intolerable injustice, in the face of Human bondage.
Mr. President, I know you have a lot on your plate with the world's economy crashed and burning, with the capitalists hanging and jerking from the subprime mortgage rope that they sold.
And perhaps in the face of the poverty and destitution that through no fault of their own - many are entering, many may ask - WWJBD?
And yet, Mr. President, no time will be too soon to end this intolerable, unjust war against plants, this war against the natural right of the Human to use all plants found in nature, this war against the constitution, this war we can no longer afford, this war in which we have a higher percentage of our population incarcerated then any other country in the world.
President Obama - end this war.
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