I believe in freedom. I believe in individual rights and sovereignty, and that no one has a legitimate claim upon any American's rights or individual sovereignty, but that we make our free associations and communities for no purpose of usurping such rights or coercing any individual to live, believe, or behave other than as he or she will, so long as his or her behaviour inflicts no harm upon a fellow sovereign citizen. I believe the sole legitimate purpose of a properly construed government is to protect and defend her free and sovereign citizens from predators at home (real predators, if you please, and not mere vicemongers) and enemies real and prospective from abroad. I further believe that a government that extends itself beyond that sole legitimate purpose ceases to be a properly construed government and becomes an improperly consecrated State, which imposes itself upon her citizens by extorting from some to bestow upon others to create a dependency class, rather than protect and foster an independent citizenry. And I believe in hand that the United States government has been not a properly construed government but an improperly construed State for a very long time, whose derelictions in sole legitimate purpose - derelictions borne well enough before the decade just past, alas - on behalf of the dependency classes left the United States and her citizens entirely vulnerable to the atrocities of 9/11, thus failing its legitimate mission of protecting and defending her citizens from enemies from abroad. I believe there is no legitimate purpose to a new and separate department of Homeland Security, because the proper and legitimate questions that must be asked and demand answers include, "What the HELL do we have a Defence Department, a Federal Bureau of Investigation, and even a Central Intelligence Agency for in the first place, if they were not for protecting and defending American citizens and their sovereignty and rights to life, liberty, property, from predators at home and enemies from abroad." I believe that any further aggrandisement of the State on behalf of "Homeland Security" or any such rot is nothing short of a further encroachment upon American citizens who had every damned right on earth to have expected their government - their well-enough financed government, which finances itself by extortion of their hard-earned dollars and productive labour and enterprise - to have spent less time appeasing the dependency classes and fatting the political classes and more time securing and nourishing the proper and legitimate protection of America's citizens and guests alike. And, I believe as did Edward R. Murrow in 1954: "As a nation, we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, what's left of it in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home." The proper and legitimate American government's job is to protect and defend her citizens as described above and nothing further, with no further legitimate business except staying the hell out of their business until or unless one citizen obstructs or abrogates a fellow citizen's equivalent rights. And any political candidate who refuses to stand upon that proper and legitimate American government mission should be refused an American citizen's vote no matter which damned political party he or she belongs to. I also believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in Gibson guitars, Mont Blanc fountain pens, the legalisation of the spitball, the legitimacy of Israel, and the sanctity of real grass baseball fields. I believe the Curse of the Bambino was really the Curse of a Boneheaded Baseball Owner more obsessed with producing Broadway musicals than baseball games. I believe most best-selling authors couldn't write their way out of a fifth-grade composition class. I believe that reviving The Beverly Hillbillies for a movie is the second stupidest idea out of Hollywood behind every other old television show they've made movies out of two or more decades later. I believe asking the government to teach and enforce morality instead of the sovereign synagogue or the church compares to asking Attila the Hun or Joseph Stalin to teach and enforce respect for human rights. I believe police work is honourable and necessary but that crooked or abusive cops should be rousted out and prosecuted before they have a chance to stain their profession further. I believe that it is every member of Congress's responsibility to know whether the legislation they propose is Constitutionally permissible; I believe the President's duty is to know whether the legislation he is about to sign is Constitutionally permissible; and, I believe that any Congressman or President who just shrugs and says, "Well, it's Constitutionally tricksy but that's what the Supreme Court is for," is derelict in the duty implied by their oath of office and should be held fully accountable for that dereliction, and I don't give a damn what the issue is or who the Congress or the President are. And I believe that no team should have the right to play for a championship until or unless its butt was parked in first place at season's end, and that those who would defend a system letting anyone but first place finishers play for the big prize is a closet welfare statist.
Originally posted by GtoRA2 Sounds good to me, but who wrote it?
Originally posted by Nath_____ in example. I believe my throat hurts.
Originally posted by JB88 i believe in coyotes and time as an abstract.
