It’s June and time to step back and ask what are the Freedom Democrats trying to do? The plan is that Freedom Democrats throw weekly parties to give people the opportunity to meet, become friends, and help people confront the difficulties of life. By throwing a party it doesn’t matter what people believe, just that they like to have a good time together.

This is what I propose to get the Freedom Democrats started.

1. End illegal drug hysteria. Some people do drugs that are currently banned. It shouldn’t surprise or shock us. Drug users aren’t criminals, any more than gay men are child molesters or blacks are robbers. Drug users include Miles Davis and Billie Holiday, two users whose genius have brought beauty and goodness to the world. Other drug users are bankers, plumbers and schoolteachers whose jobs are endangered if their private habits become public. Many are unhappy and use drugs to ease depression. They all should have the right to medical care without supervision by the Drug Enforcement Agency or the criminal justice system.  A drug user should have the same access to doctors as everyone else. If that includes prescriptions for opium-based medications that is a private decision between the doctor and the patient. There should be no need for drug users to buy drugs in the illegal market.
2. Society, which currently forces people to buy drugs illegally, should provide 24hr safer use sites allowing users to take their drugs within the sight of people who know how to stop accidental overdoses. Safe drug facilities are in place all over the world and recognize that people have always used drugs and that their lives should be protected is a fundamental belief of the Freedom Democrats.
3. Freedom Democrats want its members to demand world peace by turning the United Nations into a world government, compelling nations to obey international laws.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt rallied public support against the dictator in World War II by calling for world government. His fourth freedom—freedom from fear—called for “a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.” His other freedoms—freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom from want—added up to a program that Roosevelt believed would receive world-wide support. This program became a foundation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly.
5. Undoubtedly, the U.N. as world government should give equal importance to the dangers from climate change. That is one new task that wasn’t on the agenda in 1941. Supporting the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community are equally important and deserve the support of world government.

Developing the foundations of international human rights law was a major task of the U.N. in its early days in 1946 and 1947. The preamble to the universal declaration of human rights includes FDR’s Four Freedoms.

The world is not governed by human rights laws. War in Ukraine and Palestine are particularly egregious examples of violations of basic human right to be free of fear. Undoubtedly women in Iran and a sizable part of the population in Afghanistan have seen their human rights stymied.

Prisoners, drug users, and homeless persons in the United States have valid claims that their rights are violated.

The idea behind the Freedom Democrats is that supporting the rights of sex workers, porn watchers, and drug users would prove popular. The people who party become a new group advancing U.S. democracy, just as gays and lesbians did.

People who didn’t do well in school and idealists who want to change the world would find common ground by joining the Freedom Democrats. So far, this idea is a tiny infant. That is where we stand in June 2024.