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What You Are Inferring Is, If We Were To Legalise Heroin Tomorrow Everybody Would Use Heroin. How Many People Here Would Start Using Heroin? I Bet Nobody Would. Oh Yeah, I Need The Government To Take Care Of Me. I Don't Want To Use Heroin, So I Need These Laws.

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What You Are Inferring Is, If We Were To Legalise Heroin Tomorrow Everybody Would Use Heroin. How Many People Here Would Start Using Heroin? I Bet Nobody Would. Oh Yeah, I Need The Government To Take Care Of Me. I Don't Want To Use Heroin, So I Need These Laws.

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Freedom Of Speech

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Reject The Phony Patients' Bill Of Rights....we Don't Have To Continue Down The Path Of Socialized Medical Care, Especially In America Where Free Markets Have Provided So Much For So Many.

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Ideas Are The Only Things That Count, And Politicians Are, For The Most Part, Pretty Much Irrelevant.

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Welfare Programs

There's Been A Coup, Have You Heard? It's The Cia Coup. The Cia Runs Everything, They Run The Military. They're The Ones Who Are Over There Lobbing Missiles And Bombs On Countries. ... And Of Course The Cia Is Every Bit As Secretive As The Federal Reserve. ... And Yet Think Of The Harm They Have Done Since They Were Established [after] World War Ii. They Are A Government Unto Themselves. They're In Businesses, In Drug Businesses, They Take Out Dictators ... We Need To Take Out The Cia.

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American Voters

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Sexually-transmitted Diseases Is Caused By Sexual Activity And Promiscuity It Spreads Diseases. That's Been Known, You Know, About 400 Or 500 Years, That Somehow These Diseases Are Spread. If Fault Comes With People Because Of Their Personal Behavior But It Isn't To Be Placed On A Burden On Other People, Innocent People, Why Should They Have To Pay For The Consequences?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

The Cost In Terms Of Liberties Lost And The Unnecessary Exposure To Terrorism Are Difficult To Determine, But In Time It Will Become Apparent To All Of Us That Foreign Interventionism Is Of No Benefit To American Citizens, But Is Instead A Threat To Our Liberties.

Unlike Newt Gingrich And Rick Santorum, I Never Voted To Provide Taxpayer Funding To Planned Parenthood.

It’s Amazing That People Don’t Understand That The More The Market Is Involved And The Smaller The Government, The Lower The Price, The Better The Distribution, And The Higher The Quality.

Everyone Who Believes In Freedom Must Work Diligently For Sound Money, Fully Redeemable. Nothing Else Is Compatible With The Humanitarian Goals Of Peace And Prosperity.

When People Become Frightened, They Look For Things Of Real Value. They Will Go To Monetary Metals, Gold And Silver, And They Will Buy Other Things, Such As Buying Property. But No Matter What We Have, Whether We Have Our Gold Coins Or We Have Our Property, If We Have An Authoritarian Government, That Is Our Greatest Threat. So, I Would Like To Think That There Is No Perfect Protection, Other Than Shrinking The Size And Scope And Power Of Government, So That We Can Be Left Alone And Take Care Of Ourselves.

In Wartime, People Willing To Sacrifice Liberty For Security.

The American People Are Sick And Tired Of Washington And The People Who Have Been In Charge Have Been Passing All These Bills And I've Been Voting No All Of The Time And Vote No On These Appropriation Bills.

It's A Mistake To Think That Poor People Get The Benefit From The Welfare System. It's A Total Fraud. Most Welfare Go To The Rich Of This Country: The Military-industrial Complex, The Bankers, The Foreign Dictators, It's Totally Out Of Control.

It Would Help The Poor People Who Need Jobs. Minimum Wage Is A Mandate. We're Against Mandates So Why Should We Have It? It Would Be Very Beneficial.

As Bank Customers, We Tend To Believe That We Can Have Both Perfect Security For Our Money, Drawing On It Whenever We Want And Never Expecting It Not To Be There, While Still Earning A Regular Rate Of Return. In A True Free Market, However, There Tends To Be A Tradeoff: You Can Enjoy A Money Warehouse Or You Can Hope For A Return On Your Investment. You Can't Usually Have Both. The Fed, However, By Backing Up This Fractional-reserve System With A Promise Of Endless Bailouts And Money Creation, Attempts To Keep The Illusion Going.

But Let It Not Be Said That We Did Nothing. Let Not Those Who Love The Power Of The Welfare/warfare State Label The Dissenters Of Authoritarianism As Unpatriotic Or Uncaring. Patriotism Is More Closely Linked To Dissent Than It Is To Conformity And A Blind Desire For Safety And Security. Understanding The Magnificent Rewards Of A Free Society Makes Us Unbashful In Its Promotion, Fully Realizing That Maximum Wealth Is Created And The Greatest Chance For Peace Comes From A Society Respectful Of Individual Liberty.

The Problem Is That Democracy Is Not Freedom. Democracy Is Simply Majoritarianism, Which Is Inherently Incompatible With Real Freedom. Our Founding Fathers Clearly Understood This.

If You Sacrifice Liberty For Security, You Will Lose Both.

The Sad Thing Is, Our Foreign Policy Will Change Eventually, As Rome's Did, When All Budgetary And Monetary Tricks To Fund It Are Exhausted.

You Don't Quit Because You Happen To Be Behind. You Want To See How You Do. And Who Knows? Maybe Somebody Will Stumble.

Why Does The U.s. Care Which Flag Will Be Hoisted On A Small Piece Of Land Thousands Of Miles Away?

Young People Are Not Raw Material To Be Employed By The Political Class On Behalf Of Whatever Fashionable Political, Military, Or Social Cause Catches Its Fancy. In A Free Society, Their Lives Are Not The Playthings Of Government.

Scientifically, There's No Debate Over Whether The Fetus Is Alive And Human.

America Was Born Of Protest, Revolution, And Mistrust Of Government. Subservient Societies Neither Maintain Nor Deserve Freedom For Long.

Al-awlaki Was Born Here, He Is An American Citizen. He Was Never Tried Or Charged For Any Crimes. No One Knows If He Killed Anybody. We Know He Might Have Been Associated With The Underwear Bomber. But If The American People Accept This Blindly And Casually That We Now Have An Accepted Practice Of The President Assassinating People Who He Thinks Are Bad Guys, I Think It's Sad.

Truth Is Treason In The Empire Of Lies.

Americans Are Tired Of The Games And The Lies Of Today's Media. They Want The Truth. Imagine This. No Censors, No Barricades, No Statists. We Will Be Able To Engage Viewers Directly On Subjects That Matter Most To Them, From Finances To Civil Liberties To Foreign Policy.

The Federal Government Overrules State Laws Where State Laws Permit Medicinal Marijuana For People Dying Of Cancer. The Federal Government Goes In And Arrests These People, Put Them In Prison With Mandatory, Sometimes Life Sentences. This War On Drugs Is Totally Out Of Control. If You Want To Regulate Cigarettes And Alcohol And Drugs, It Should Be At The State Level.

Congress Remains In Total Denial As Our Liberties Are Rapidly Fading Before Our Eyes. The Process Is Propelled By Unwarranted Fear And Ignorance As To The True Meaning Of Liberty. It Is Driven By Economic Myths, Fallacies And Irrational Good Intentions.

Cliches About Supporting The Troops Are Designed To Distract From Failed Policies, Policies Promoted By Powerful Special Interests That Benefit From War, Anything To Steer The Discussion Away From The Real Reasons The War In Iraq Will Not End Anytime Soon.

There's Not Much You Can Do About The Bias Of The Media Other Than Try To Counteract It By Putting The Truth Out Best You Can, And The Internet Has Been A Great Weapon For Holding The Media Accountable.

We Have A Greater Responsibility To Act Than Those Who Live In Ignorance. Once You Become Knowledgeable, You Have An Obligation To Do Something About It.

It Is True That Liberty Is Not Free, Nor Is It Easy. But Tyranny - Even Varying Degrees Of It - Is Much More Difficult, And Much More Expensive. The Time Has Come To Rein In The Federal Government, Put It On A Crash Diet, And Let The People Keep Their Money And Their Liberty.

I'm Convinced That You Never Have To Give Up Liberties To Be Safe. I Think You're Less Safe When You Give Up Your Liberties.

It Is Not Democracy To Send In Billions Of Dollars To Push Regime Change Overseas. It Isn't Democracy To Send In The Ngos To Re-write Laws And The Constitution In Places Like Ukraine. It Is None Of Our Business.

What Can You Do? More And More Americans Are Carrying A Gun In The Car. An Ex-cop I Know Advises That If You Have To Use A Gun On A Youth, You Should Leave The Scene Immediately, Disposing Of The Wiped Off Gun As Soon As Possible. Such A Gun Cannot, Of Course, Be Registered To You, But One Bought Privately (through The Classifieds, For Example.)

In The American Political Lexicon, 'change' Always Means More Of The Same: More Government, More Looting Of Americans, More Inflation, More Police-state Measures, More Unnecessary War, And More Centralization Of Power.

When One Person Can Initiate War, By Its Definition, A Republic No Longer Exists.

Republican Control Of The Senate = Expanded Neocon Wars In Syria And Iraq. Boots On The Ground Are Coming!

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