Measure P, The Freedom to Garden Human Rights Restoration Act, is about the responsibility to protect freedom and human rights here at home.

Unlike monarchy, communism, fascism or most other forms of government in existence, the primary stated purpose of the United States government, including county government, is to protect the naturally “endowed” “certain unalienable Rights” of “the People.”

What in the constitution protects your naturally endowed right to grow a carrot or tomato plant, etc., to feed and take care of yourself?

There are no specific protections guarding such rights. In the absence of specific language protecting your rights, and without a vote of the people, the corporately influenced government has assumed a God-like jurisdiction over the natural plants of earth and the result has been nothing short of disastrous.

Of course outlawing a natural plant inflates its value as illegal commerce, so where your fundamental human right to garden once existed, now there is prohibition-related crime, violence and environmental destruction.

While this erosion of your human rights has been the cornerstone of funding and profits for organized crime, it has also worked to deny all people of critically needed food, medicine, fiber and other problem-solving resources.

This act would substantially help stop crime and environmental destruction in our county by simply restoring your naturally endowed human right to grow and use the natural plants of earth for your own needs. This act would not protect anyone involved in commercial activities.

Denying your human rights has also laid the jurisdictional foundation for privately patenting genetically engineered plant life and has left all natural plant life legally unprotected from “GMO” cross pollination. Current law allows corporations to sue you for disparaging their rights if their patent protected pollen contaminates your garden.

This act creates standing to hold corporations legally liable if their genetically engineered patented organisms (GMOs) contaminate the natural heirloom plants in your garden through cross pollination.

This act specifically guards against individuals destroying the environment or creating a toxic public health risk.

This act is the only honest, reasonable and responsible solution being proposed anywhere in the United States concerning the ill-conceived, corporately influenced prohibitions on earth's natural plant life.

Our choices at the ballot box are almost always comparable to choosing between Budweiser or Coors or the lesser of two evils.

If you are a person who hasn't voted because you don't see how it makes any difference, then this measure is your chance to make a real difference and your vote counts not only here in Lake County, but your vote will be representing the many across this state, country and world who have felt or are feeling as you do.

This act appropriately engages the Ninth Amendment and the principal constitutional responsibility of “the People” to declare the “certain rights held by the people,” thereby seeking to bring current county law concerning gardening into consistency with the 14th Amendment and equal protection under the law for home gardeners in the unincorporated areas.

If you are currently serving or are a veteran, this fight for freedom at home needs your assistance. The already disparaged freedom to live and take care of yourself the best you can is part of what so many before us have sacrificed their all for. We continue to ask our young men and women to go fight and sacrifice to protect this thing we call freedom.

This act intends to honor our shared responsibility to all those who have answered the call and continue to sacrifice for freedom. Our children need us to secure these basic human rights for them and for all those who come after us.

Wholly restoring and protecting your naturally endowed right to garden would cripple organized crime and impose overdue accountability on corporations like Monsanto where current law provides none.

Please read Measure P, The Freedom to Garden Human Rights Restoration Act of 2014, and then please consider voting to restore and protect your human rights and responsibilities in November.

Ron Kiczenski lives in Lucerne, Calif., and is an author and proponent of Measure P, www.freedomtogardenact.org .