The Government is Not the Answer!
From 20/20, first aired Friday October 17, 2008.
John Stossel explains that government is not the answer to all of our problems:
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American Drug War: The Last White Hope
I encourage everyone to check out this film by Kevin Booth. It gets to the heart of the matter, we are imprisoning our own people at an alarming rate. More than the USSR did or China does. And the minority population is bearing the brunt of this war.
DVDs go on sale April 20th at http://www.sacredcowproductions.com.
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Worlds Smallest Political Quiz
I just added a link to The Worlds Smallest Political Quiz. This clever little tool is a terrific gauge of where you actually stand politically. I think many of you may be surprised by your results. -MW
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New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
The President’s ‘New Freedom Commission on Mental Health,’ in its report, recommended that all persons be screened for mental illness.
Beyond being Orwellian (‘New Freedom’? I guess the “old freedom” guaranteed us by the Constitution isn’t good enough any more?), it’s Socialist, and it’s downright un-American.
In the Executive Summary Under Goal 4: “Both children and adults will be screened for mental illnesses during their routine physical exams.”
Do you want a government worker examining, prescribing medication, and (god forbid) counseling your child without your consent? If the White House gets it’s way that is exactly what will happen. From WorldNetDaily.com:
Bush to screen population for mental illness
Forced mental screening hits roadblock in House
Attempt to dump mental screening failsFrom Ron Paul:
Forcing Kids Into a Mental Health Ghetto
Mental Health Screening for Kids- Part IIPlease, take the time to review the following link and see how your representative voted.
If they voted for the amendment, call them and thank them. If they voted against it, call them and ask if they are in favor of governmental mind control of future generations, or did they vote against it because of all the $$$ they are going to pull in from the pharmaceutical companies that are going to see a big spike in profits if this takes affect.http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2004/roll438.xml
The only people more in favor of this than the Republicans is the Democrats, so why not Vote for Liberty!
-MW
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The Philosophy of Liberty
This is a simple introduction to the basic beliefs of Libertarians. I highly recommend anyone that’s intrigued by the idea of self-ownership view this short ShockWave movie.
For more info:
Grow The LP
The Libertarian PartyLive free or die! -MW
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Libertarian and Green Party Candidates Arrested at Debate
Should I be shocked that the media coverage of the arrests was practically non-existent? The lack of coverage this story got is laughable! You can get a detailed play by play of the events of friday night at Michael Badnarik’s website. Worldnetdaily.com was probably the most recognizable media outlet to pick this story up, and despite the fact that I think WordNetDaily.com comes down on the wrong side of most issues, they do show some common sense occasionally. (For instance, their recent coverage of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health Report, which calls for compulsory mental health screenings for anyone under the age of 18.) I should probably just face the fact that we’ve really lost any choice in this country when it comes to who’s calling the shots in DC.
I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils. People ask me why I’m wasting my vote. I don’t see it as a waste, I see it as voting for who I believe in instead of voting for the guy I detest the least. Unfortunately, the reality is here in Texas a vote for anyone other than Bush is a wasted vote. All of our electoral votes are spoken for anyway.
I still hope deep down inside that the people of The United States will come to their senses at some point and realize that the only we we can affect change is if we all vote for change.
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The Bipartisan Presidential Press Conference
errr…debate This debate is nothing short of a publicly funded press conference for both the Democratic and Republican candidates. We have been forced over the years to choose the lesser of two evils. Is that really a choice? Unfortunately, those in power now will never allow a third party candidate to succeed until the people stand up and demand a real choice.
That being said, at least President Bush didn?t come off looking like a complete moron in THIS debate. I have to wonder why Senator Kerry didn?t point out that Bush failed to answer the last question in any substantive way. President Bush was asked to enumerate three wrong decisions he made, and what he did to fix them. Senator Kerry could have attacked the fact that Bush is completely unwilling to admit he has ever made a mistake, instead he chose to rebut Bush?s non-answer.
That?s really symptomatic of the problems with the Democratic Party: No Killer Instinct.
An ?undecided? voter on CNN commented that he was surprised that they both have yet to address the security of our northern and southern borders. Our borders are like a sieve, and no one seems to care.
John Walters, head of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) recently said about the marijuana situation in Canada, ?We have to make security at the border tougher because this (Canadian grown marijuana) is a dangerous threat to our young people.?
Excuse me?!?! Why aren?t our borders as tight as they possibly could be right now?
Despite everything we heard tonight, in November we won?t be voting for the guy that will keep us safe, we?ll really just be choosing which path we?ll take on our way to ruin.
–MW
IndyGirl 5:18 pm on December 29, 2004 Permalink |
thanks – that was very entertaining. Funny in my own blog, I mentioned that I was leaning towards Libritarian, and sure enough, I am.
Keep on keepin’ on.