The American dream is not only about everyone being able to dream of being rich someday. It's about doing it ethically (First DO NO HARM!) and stopping the success of those without ethics through our courts and the free market. We, the people, the consumers, have all the power in a free market. We can refuse to buy from morally bankrupt sellers.

Big business and big government have a scandalous mutually beneficial love affair going on! That's the opposite of a free market. The Constitution doesn't authorize Congress to subsidize industries or grant special favors to particular businesses LIKE BIG PHARMA.

Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? The truth is out and spreading like wildfire! Cannabis cures cancer! This truth will not be suppressed, until every household knows the clamor, the swelling protest, exposing dark, dirty secrets of heinous crimes against humanity! People who use the term doper for those who make a safer choice are just showing their ignorance. We can educate them. The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs!

OUTRAGEOUS HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) SETTLEMENT PROVES THE DRUG WAR IS A JOKE' Morally bankrupt empire builders, warmongers, financiers and leaders in their pockets make capitalism abhorrent with their predatory capitalism. Predatory capitalism due to big government interference and protection destroys people, benign or ethical capitalism, America's founders' vision of the free market, creates a world of abundance for all.

It is morally bankrupt to punish nonviolent adults for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. Less than 1% of US are actually addicted to anything illegal. Treatment is seven times cheaper than prison. Show fiscal responsibility, demand morally correct policy!

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

All who follow a code of ethics or principles are self-governors. Our system is meant to protect the self-governors from those without ethics and principles; perpetrators of fraud, rape and violence. The state does not run the affairs of people in a free society. It upholds justice between people who conduct their own affairs.

Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty! Incarcerate more of those morally bankrupt, selling drugs to children or driving intoxicated. Support Texas House Bill 184!

Save lives instead of ruining them. Get tough on violent crime!

"More than 600 people gathered on the Texas Capitol grounds Saturday for a rally against President Barack Obama’s proposals to curb gun violence." Thank you Ted Cruz for standing tall for the Constitution. 2nd Amendment song: "Come And Take It" by Steve Vaus. There is a link between psychotropic pharmaceuticals and violence including the violent slaughter of innocents. Do an Internet search. Some of these pharmaceuticals side effects disconnect the user from the rest of us. Other people become as insignificant as a bug to be squashed. Take care of the mentally ill, get them off our streets and in hospitals.

The problem is not with guns or the Second Amendment, it is with not HAVING OUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT! I am afraid! Violent predators roam free, an average of 2,185 children are reported missing each day, rape kits go unprocessed, schools go under funded, roads need repair while our precious resources are depleted chasing nonviolent drug users. Drug warriors can get their adrenaline rush chasing murderers and sexual predators.

Prohibition's legacy is legend in the waste of our precious lives and resources. Deaths and needless injuries happen too often in botched paramilitary drug raids. Overzealous, unconscionable in the extreme, situations are occurring! Radley Balko's "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America" focuses in great detail on such atrocities.

Ashley Villarreal: in San Antonio DEA agents shoot innocent 14-year-old girl in the head, but deny any wrongdoing. Rachel Hoffman: a young college grad, coerced by police to act as an informant after she was arrested for marijuana possession and then killed by drug dealers following a botched drug sting.

Get rid of the oligarchy! Restore the Republic! Empirical statistical evidence strongly shows that a republic (the American form of government) leads to less internal violence and democide. Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel in his book, DEATH by GOVERNMENT to describe "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder."

Unjust laws draw people to law enforcement willing to work in a corrupt system, looking to milk it for all it is worth. This causes a prevalent disrespect for the law.

It is a great shame on US; we incarcerate more of our people than any other nation! One in 106 whites are incarcerated. One in 36 hispanics and one in 15 blacks are incarcerated! Prohibition is a policy used by racists to fulfill their agenda.

DPS, the Department of Public SHAME! When is law enforcement going to get back to "serving and protecting;" making us safer? Angel Dobbs and her niece Ashley Dobbs are suing a pair of Texas state troopers and the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety for what they claim was an unconstitutional and "humiliating" roadside body cavity search earlier this year. The Dobbs deserve a very public apology and all the compensatory and exemplary damages plus interest as well as recovery of all attorney's fees/court costs for the scandalous, contemptible behavior of this heinous, abhorrent troop in uniform.

Study: At Least 2,000 People Wrongfully Convicted In 23 Years "We know there are many more that we haven’t found,” added University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross, the editor of the newly opened National Registry of Exonerations. Check out Texas Exonerations in stories and pictures: "A Human Tragedy"

"Counties such as San Bernardino in California and Bexar County in Texas are heavily populated, yet seemingly have no exonerations, a circumstance that the academics say cannot possibly be correct."

"The registry excludes at least 1,170 additional defendants. Their convictions were thrown out starting in 1995 amid the periodic exposures of 13 major police scandals around the country. In all the cases, police officers fabricated crimes, usually by planting drugs or guns on innocent defendants."

When are we going to start holding police and prosecutors responsible for their actions?

"After a career in law and law teaching of more than four decades, I am convinced the most important laws needing to be enforced are those governing law enforcement itself." - Buford Terrell

All the Founders are probably spinning in their graves. Fascism, communism, socialism are all totalitarian philosophies promoting big government. "The central insight of the political model promoted by the The World's Smallest Political Quiz is that the major difference between the various political philosophies, the real defining element in what a person believes politically, is the amount of government control over human action. In other words, there's not just a left-right axis, but an up-down one - DOWN toward authoritarianism and UP toward liberty!"

"This is a breakthrough concept that instantly gives far more insight into politics. The Quiz chart more accurately places totalitarian or interventionist philosophies -- fascism, communism, and so on -- next to each other, instead of at opposite ends of a single line."

Ron Paul: "Follow the Founders' Advice," which was to stay out of the affairs of other nations. Servant's of tyranny play on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self government and value public safety first! "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."- MLK

In modern warfare 90 % of the casualties are civilian. Our soldiers are coming home from war zones and committing suicide because of the carnage of innocents they have witnessed or from psychotropic pharmaceuticals induced side effects. "The number of Fort Hood soldiers who killed themselves nearly doubled in 2012, jumping to 19 from 10 in 2011, and trending upwards even as the war in Iraq ended and troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan. That echoed overall military numbers: 2012 saw 349 service members kill themselves, the Associated Press reported last week, more than any previous year and outpacing battlefield deaths." Some Veterans treat post traumatic stress successfully with cannabis.

End the war on Terror! I am not afraid! Cut the military industrial complex's budget to the bone!! Quit sacrificing young lives on the alter of power hungry, morally bankrupt financiers, empire builders, warmongers and leaders in their pockets. Governments operate on consent. Write a letter and actively withdraw your consent for the AUMF -- the Authorization to Use Military Force, passed in 2001. Ask your Congress people to Sponsor Rep. Barbara Lee's bill to repeal the AUMF, HR 2859, and exert effort to get it to the floor for a vote. Tell servants of tyranny they do NOT have your consent for any actions designed to trick the American people into wanting war.

Tell servants of tyranny to uphold their oath of office! Repeal the detainee provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 (Sections 1021 & 1022).

Voting in the current system is an exercise in futility, but mass communication, social networking and other high-technologies allow us to band together and form a powerful united front for good over evil more easily and quickly than ever before. The web is the fastest growing communications medium in the history of the world. A powerful tool, a window of opportunity, in our war of good over evil; the Internet continues to revolutionize the way we communicate and has enormous potential for reshaping the political process. "Together we can break the two-party system stranglehold and create an election process that is truly Free and Equal!" Christina Tobin, Founder & Chair promises.

We Must Take America Back - Steve Vaus - The OFFICIAL music video. Gov. Gary Johnson Responds To Every Question Asked In CNN Debate that he was excluded from. Gary has turned to the Internet to release video responses to every single question asked during the debate.

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." - MLK.

Since 2006 I have awarded two free portraits yearly, each dedicated to the freedom philosophy or the American dream. I call it the, "Rebel with Just Cause Award." It is given to true American patriots; those who stand for freedom against tyranny and injustice. The real visionaries, who laid down America's laws, those who defined what an American patriot would be, were rebels with just cause. It's not just our right it's an American's patriotic duty to rebel against big government corruption. To view portraits click on 2010 Rebel With Just Cause, where you can find links to all portrait awards finished to date.

Gary Johnson and Judge Jim Gray are the recipient of McCool's 2013 Rebel With Just Cause Award for their efforts toward saving the American Dream: self-government free of big government corruption and oppression and restoring Justice the guardian of liberty!

Richard Lee will receive the other portrait for his trailblazing work, made in spite of great adversity, for drug policy reform. Richard has become one of the highest-profile, most sympathy drawing activists on this planet, a famous spokesman for self-government and ending cannabis prohibition.

One 2012 Rebel is journalist and poet Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed in drug prohibition-related violence inspiring him to galvanize Mexican society and awaken international debate. In the summer of 2011, tens of thousands marched across Mexico to protest the drug war and the 50,000 drug prohibition related deaths in the previous five years.

Americans are not the only rebels with just cause but it is our patriotic duty to rebel against big government corruption and oppression.

Kevin Zeese is the other 2012 Rebel for his tireless efforts for peace. He is the Executive Director and cofounder of VotersForPeace. He is an attorney, and a long time peace advocate.

One of my 2011 Rebel with Just Cause portraits will be shared by Bradley Manning and Julian Assange: for posting the Afghanistan war diaries on wikileaks. It is not a crime to expose war crimes. Marc Emery is our hero and wins the other 2011 portrait for taking a stand for justice against a morally bankrupt, violence triggering, nightmare policy.

I am behind on my portraits but will git-r-done.

Do you feel duty bound to Save the American Dream: Self-Government, freedom from big government tyranny and oppression.... and to Restore Justice, the guardian of Liberty?

If you tell the servants of tyranny they do not have your consent to police the world, the market or what we, as individuals choose as our medicinal/social drugs.... no brag, just fact, you are a Rebel with Just Cause. You may as well own up to it,

Hit "like" under the American's for Safe Access portrait at the top of McCoo'ls Rebels With Just Cause FaceBook page.

You are a true patriot and my hero! Thanks for all you do for reform!

Save lives instead of ruining them. Join LEAP! Join COP and DownSizeDC!

Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!

"Strike the root!" Be brave, that's how we end terror. All we have to do is stop being afraid, and stop acting out of fear. True patriots never forget America is the home of the free and the brave.

Revolution is Easy! Exercising your political might is just a click away. Thanks for all you do for reform!

Track your Senators' and Representative's votes by e-mail.

Changing who's in charge will not affect much. The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast, Uncle Sam! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on down-sizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for future generations and ourselves.

Compiled and written by Colleen McCool