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U.S. Constitution Title: Dude, Where’s My Freedom? The government tightens the noose on guns, health, travel, and more. Benjamin Franklin once warned Americans that “they who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” Yet in the seemingly unrelated areas of health care and physical security, our political leaders are embracing this folly with predictably bad results. In the realm of health care, the Obama administration is forging ahead to implement its “universal health care” plan, despite consistent popular opposition and numerous legal challenges. They claim they must restrict patients’ freedoms by forcing them to purchase insurance on government terms and restrict doctors’ freedoms by herding them into Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in order to guarantee everyone the supposed “security” of guaranteed health care. Yet, as we’ve already seen in Massachusetts (which has a health plan similar to the national ObamaCare program), this results in patients having theoretical “coverage” — but less of an ability to get actual medical care. In the related realm of pharmaceuticals, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claims it must restrict patients’ freedom to purchase (and manufacturers’ freedom to sell) drugs in order to protect our safety. However, pharmaceutical industry experts fault onerous FDA regulations for contributing to the current dangerous shortage of many injectable drugs by artificially raising the costs of drug creation and production. Hence, many seriously ill patients are now unable to get the medications they need. Even worse, as Mark McCarty of Medical Device Daily recently described, FDA advisors have sought to deny terminally patients access to potentially life-extending treatments on the grounds that “the risk-benefit ratio was not up to par.” Similarly, medical device makers are now finding Europe a more hospitable environment for innovation than the U.S. due to FDA regulations. Rather than protecting Americans, the FDA is endangering them. In the realm of transportation security, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) is already a national joke for groping grandmothers and babies. Yet when tested with fake bombs and real guns, they’ve failed miserably. Indeed, it was the passengers who stopped the would-be bomber in Detroit of Northwest Airlines flight 253, not the TSA — a classic example of what blogger Glenn Reynolds calls “An Army of Davids.” Americans have surrendered their freedoms (and their dignity) to the TSA for a sham “security theater” rather than genuine security. Yet politicians like Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) want to extend such controls from air travel to train travel. Finally, Obama administration officials recently let slip that they are working on new gun control measures “under the radar.” Gun control is the classic example of foolishly exchanging an essential liberty for an illusion of security. The U.S. states that respect the honest citizen’s right to carry firearms in self-defense have consistently lower rates of violent crimes than states with strict gun control laws. These examples illustrate the problems that arise when government oversteps its proper bounds. The proper function of government is to protect individual rights, such as our rights to free speech, property, and contract. Only those who initiate physical force or fraud can violate our rights. A properly limited government thus protects our rights by protecting us from criminals who steal, murder, rape, and so on, as well as from foreign aggressors. But it should otherwise leave honest people alone to live peacefully. Whenever government exceeds those proper bounds, it violates honest citizens’ rights, rather than protecting them. Rather than the guilty, the innocent thus bear the costs. Innocent patients in Massachusetts suffer by having to wait nearly twice as long for primary care appointments than patients in the other 49 states. Innocent patients around the country suffer from FDA barriers restricting their access to life-saving drugs and medical devices. TSA gropings punish innocent travelers, not the bad guys. Gun control punishes honest gun owners while rewarding violent criminals by delivering to them a populace of disarmed victims. Fortunately, we can rectify these injustices by insisting that the government adhere to its legitimate function of protecting individual rights. In health care, a proper government would allow patients, doctors, and insurers to enter into insurance contracts according to their own best judgment. The government’s job would be to enforce those contracts against any attempts by patients, providers, or insurers to cheat. It should not punish insurance companies for selling products that customers want, as recently occurred in Massachusetts. Note that in such a free market, the freedom to contract protects insurability (including for patients with pre-existing conditions), rather than destroying it. With pharmaceuticals, the government should protect us against fraudulent claims. But otherwise drugmakers should be left free to decide what drugs to manufacture. Likewise, doctors and patients should decide what medications they should prescribe/take. The resultant free market would make safe, effective drugs much more affordable and available to all. With respect to terrorism, the government should adopt a proactive foreign policy that actually tackles the threat of Islamic totalitarianism, rather than harassing law-abiding travelers. With respect to violent crime, the government should go after actual criminals rather than penalizing law-abiding gun owners. All forms of “gun control,” “travel control,” or “health control” are just examples of a broader “freedom control.” And they are all doomed to fail because at root they are just different ways of government violating our individual rights rather than protecting them. In Memorial Day and D-Day commemorations around the country, America recently honored the many brave men and women who fought abroad for our liberty. Let us not ignobly surrender that hard-won liberty for politicians’ sham promises of “security” here at home. Otherwise, we may all wake up one day soon wondering, “Dude, where’s my freedom?”
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest “they who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” Don't be confusing the libTURDS and just plain scum who hate even the idea of America with FACTS Ben. It'll be "Scanners" redux LIVE! pop Pop pOp poP PoP pOp POP! Nobody wants that Ben. Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #2. To: Mad Dog (#1) "in hoc signo vinces" So, what does this mean to you, Skull Stomper? ![]() #3. To: Ferret Mike (#2) (Edited) LOL! "What chew talking bout Willard?" LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too stoopid to look it up azzwipe? Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #4. To: Mad Dog (#3) How are things around Caswell Lake this time of year? ![]() #5. To: Ferret Mike (#4) . Gee, you little no ball faggot how would I know? Got anything but words you little cunt? I'm NOT going anywhere cunt. Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #6. To: Mad Dog (#5) I'll be up there soon. ;-) I sure do love Alaska. ![]() #7. To: Ferret Mike (#4) LOL! Governor Palin lives 24/7/365 rent FREE in your little bird like noggin already, and it looks like I do too. (Different flat of course. LOTS of room in here azzwipe). You powerless little pissant bitch. Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #8. To: Mad Dog (#7) Nice dogs. I see why they mean so much to you. ![]() #9. To: Ferret Mike (#6) . LMAO! I FUCKING SURE HOPE SO no balls. But I kind of doubt it no balls. But ... no balls ... ANY time, ANY place. LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #10. To: Ferret Mike (#8) . Do you have something that you want to SAY you little libTURD cunt? Eh? . .. ... .... ..... .... ... .. . Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #11. To: Mad Dog (#9) Broke dick and stoved in Steve sure yacks tough. And he constantly repeats himself like a limp dick hampster on an exercise wheel. LOL! ![]() #12. To: Mad Dog (#10) "Do you have something that you want to SAY you little libTURD cunt?" I don't know Steve, do I? ![]() #13. To: Ferret Mike (#11) Does he? Hmmmm seems like a pussy like you should take that into consideration before threatening him or his. Could end up being kind of a serious problem for a little cunt like you cornflake whore. I'm just saying ... interstate terroristic threatening over feral gooberment controlled web could be a "challenge" to deal with, I mean for a little cunt like you. LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #14. To: Ferret Mike (#12) That's funny no balls!~ I don't know Steve either! BUT do YOU, (the little cowardly libTURD cunt), have something to say? Gibber it right on out no balls. Nobody here cares that you are queer. Except you I guess. LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #15. To: Mad Dog (#13) (Edited) Well now, when you see a threat, let me know. You do recall your dunning me to know when I was coming up there in your bid to be menacing? You feeling a bit like you might be in Bad Leroy Brown's spot that Jim Croce sang about? ![]() #16. To: Mad Dog (#14) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/758937/posts Was this the thread Skull Stomper got banned on? I notice your weird, crazy posting is deleted. ![]() #17. To: Ferret Mike (#15) . OK, I saw the threats that you just made against me and my dogs here, both times you little cunt. IF you come here, and phuck with me or mine, well cheechako ... that's going to be your problem. I promise. The rest of your no balls gibberish is just you "thinking" that you grew a set all of a sudden. Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #18. To: Mad Dog (#17) To: skull stomper That would be quite a stretch to say I threatened them, Steve. But such a claim fits well with your persona. ;-) Here's an old post to you to refresh your memory a wee bit. ![]() #19. To: Ferret Mike (#16) LOL! I don't know cunt. AND I don't care. Meanwhile you are reduced to searching other sites, that you have been banned from forever, for traces of my on line PUBLIC "persona"? Could you be any more of a WEAK ineffectual little libTURD cunt? I'm embarrassed FOR you no balls. LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #20. To: Ferret Mike (#18) Honestly no balls you really are pitiful. AND I don't care. Meanwhile you are reduced to searching other sites, that you have been banned from forever, for traces of my on line PUBLIC "persona"? ROTFLMAOAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Could you be any more of a WEAK ineffectual little libTURD cunt? I'm embarrassed FOR you no balls. LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #21. To: Ferret Mike (#18) btw you foul gibbering libTURD cunt. No matter what my actual first name is, we aren't on a first name basis. Otherwise I'd just call you "foul gibbering" That's not too complex for you to understand is it? Got it? Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #22. To: Mad Dog (#20) How do you know I'm not still there in a new nick? ;-D ![]() #23. To: Mad Dog (#21) "No matter what my actual first name is, we aren't on a first name basis." Right Steve, I already knew that. ;-D ![]() #24. To: Ferret Mike (#22) LOL! WHY would I care shit for brains? LOL! It's YOU who plots and plans in reference to ME azzlicker, NOT the other way around. It's YOU azzlicker who has ME in their so called "mind" 24/7/365. I NEVER give your pitiful self or existence even a millisecond of thought when I am away from this site! YOU on the other hand can't get the ol MD out of your otherwise empty noggin! You actually put EFFORT into TRYING to fuck with me LOSER! What a FUCKING LOSER YOU ARE cornflake WHORE! LMAO! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #25. To: Ferret Mike (#23) . Whatever ... "foul gibbering" ... WHATEVER THIS passes as discourse to YOU "foul gibbering"? LOL! K Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #26. To: Mad Dog (#24) (Edited) Heh, you amuse me. You fret and fume so much your words have no teeth to them. Oh I do realize it's important to you to think they injure and make people rent their head to you. But the truth is, you have been a one note steve-o since you first started posting on the Internet. Your favorite head game is to pretend you are all knowing as to who is a good American and who isn't. That only has weight with you. You are very much a loner, and you make sure nobody ever likes you. No Steve, your words are empty, and you are a pathetic joke. ;-) ![]() #27. To: Ferret Mike (#26) LOL! You pitifully weak little bitch! What makes you "think" that anything you say to me matters? You don't even have the balls to just come out and threaten me and my dogs etc, you have to mince all around it and TRY to play cute with it. I don't play "head games" you little bitch, I say what I mean, and I mean what I say. YOU are the creep LIAR here bitch. As to, if anyone "likes" me or not, why don't you actually TRY to come up here an fuck with me bitch? (I mean besides you being a lying little cowardly cunt of course.) No cornflake WHORE your words mean nothing, they are nothing but lies just like you and your entire life are. AND really, could you be anymore of a supercilious pedant FRAUD? LOL! That head shrink game that you like to play is just like you bitch, phony. But of course, as long as you can CON the air headed co-eds with your simpering act you think that you are Rasputin! LOL! You really are a pitiful little fuck! LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #28. To: Ferret Mike (#26) . btw cornflake WHORE, you picked the PERFECT thread to TRY your crap on me bitch. Afterall, all you libTURD whores have left are LIES and THREATS. Your wee man child failure, the messiah "king" obammy, has FAILED so badly that even people in Rio Linda have got a clue by now. So ... I expect you libTURDS to get more and more violent as you get more and more slapped down by the VAST majority of AMERICANS. When are you going to start shaking your little red book at us comrade? How long do we have before you TRY to force us into the fields at bayonet point bitch? Oh THAT's right ... this is still AMERICA ... that damned 2nd Amendment eh bitch? "Molon Labe!" eh bitch? LOL! You are WEAK bitch! WEAK! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #29. To: Mad Dog (#28) "Molon Labe!" I'm familiar with the term, Steve. My friend Blackie who is from here and used to be on FR used to say it all the time. And it is the United States, where people can have opinions different from you and can't be condemned for disagreeing with the likes of you. ;-) ![]() #30. To: Mad Dog (#27) "What makes you "think" that anything you say to me matters? " Spoken like a true sociopath, Steve. You think only your opinion and belief system matters. Which makes you the world's worst spokescritter for the Constitution and this country. ![]() #31. To: Mad Dog (#0) Watch out for attack ferrets! Nice snack for the dogs. LOL at the faux domestic terrorist. I hate to interrupt this flame war with facts related to the topic, but another gross violation of the constitution has just happened. Attorney General Eric Holder has pulled some "guidelines" out of his azz, which he believes permit the FBI to search anyone without permission from anyone, no paperwork or record whatsoever, for any imagined reason. www.libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=21181 The fourth amendment has been repealed, by order of the AG.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice. #32. To: hondo68 (#31) That guy is one big flame war. Where have you been? ![]() #33. To: hondo68, Mad Dog (#31) (Edited) #35. To: Some Mothers Son (#34) You whine about 'flame wars,' but actually Mad Dog was the first one to start in on me. It was right after he, Sneaky Pete and others had responded appropriately to his perennial diarrea of the mouth maliciousness. I find it interesting he cried so many crocodile tears about not being taken seriously as a vet and being accused of not being one the first thing he did without knowing me was to question my service. He set the standard for future exchanges. If you infer I am being hard on him, then you just have not seen Skull Stomper/Mad Dog in action long enough to know he ultimately is just out for himself. ![]() #34. To: Ferret Mike (#30) LOL! Spoken as the supercilious self centered pedant that we all know you to be bitch! Rejecting YOU and YOUR ilk by no means means that I am left "alone". On the contrary bitch, I am left with SANITY and GOODNESS when I reject scum such as YOU. Am I going too fast for you bitch? YOU NEED the HERD little bitch. I despise the herd. What a MOE-ROON you are bitch! LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #35. To: Mad Dog (#34) The purpose of such language is to OFFEND YOU asshole. When you so clearly state your comments are not for discussion but only there to try to offend, this takes the punch out of your attempt to cause consternation. You post as if you were a one person crusade against debate and lively talk in forums. In fact you are so hell bent to leather to be rude reflexively, have of the few you do post somewhat civilly to you stated off by attacking then backing down saying you mis-understood them. Which means you are a poor listener and this goes hand and hand with a generally anti-social outlook on life, Mr. Bait and Tackle Stevie. ![]() #36. To: hondo68 (#31) Watch out for attack ferrets! Nice snack for the dogs. LOL at the faux domestic terrorist. While I agree that cornflake WHORE is a weak, cowardly, libTURD pussy, unlikely to actually DO anything but talk, I have through experience learned never to underestimate the ability of people to act out. Honestly, "he" acts like some grade school gurl with a crush on me. Note the subject of the thread on which this little libTURD bitch decided to start threatening me and my dogs. THIS is a great example of how libTURDS operate. When you beat them down like the vermin they are with the objective TRUTH, when you destroy them in every encounter, when they get angry and frustrated at you NOT going along with their "Hate America FIRST!" agenda, THEN they ALWAYS pull out the personal attacks and THREATS and such. THIS will get worse as we go on, as the gibbering libTURD legions realize that they are getting whuppped. Anyhow ... the little bitch thinks because he can and has trespassed in my system, that I'm supposed to be afraid of his threats. I'm RIGHT here. I'm NOT going anywhere. LOL! Then he threatens my dogs? LOL! It would appear that weasel Mikey has a death wish. Yep. Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #37. To: hondo68, Ferret Mike (#33) Mad Dog was the first one to start in on me. LMAO!!!!!!!!!!! Rule #1 of being a gibbering libTURD whore, "it's NEVER, EVER your fault". NOTHING that any libTURD does is EVER their own fault! It's ALWAYS somebody else's "fault"! (Usually it's some ebil repukelican't or ebil conservative's "fault".) EVERYBODY knows libTURDS are pure as the driven snow. /S LOL! Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #38. To: Ferret Mike (#35) . LOL! POINTING AT YOU ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You stoopid piece of libTURD shit, I'm not interested in having a "discussion" or "debate" with you and/or your ilk. There are RULES for discussion and debate that you libTURD cunts totally ignore. YOU creeps aren't interested in any objective truth, your only interest is to ADVANCE YOUR libTURD "Hate America FIRST!" agenda. You just HATE having regular Americans turn your own weapons around and using them against YOU and YOUR filthy tyrannical agenda. You libTURD cunts always TRY to pose as if you have some superior "moral" position, while WE ALL KNOW you are vermin of the lowest order. You feel free to stroll through my system, and then threaten both me and my dogs, and then you whine like the little no ball libTURD cunt that you really are, that the mean 'ol DOG "started it". Did you ever have any balls cornflake WHORE? (The ones bouncing off of your chin don't count WHORE.) Let me ask you a simple question faggot, I'm sure that EVERYONE including STONE and the feds will be all ears, WHAT exactly makes you think that my name is "Steve" mikey boy? Hmmmmmmmmmm? Yeah, I thought so. You foul gibbering libTURD MOE-ROON. Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms. #39. To: Mad Dog (#38) Your post is all empty calorie. There is the usual and oft repeated bluster. And there is your laughable ascertain I seek revenge without having any love for the practice, never mind there doesn't exist a reason to take that posture. That is your own inner turmoil and fears working on you to think in those terms. But thanks for sharing anyway, Steve. I am highly amused. ![]() #40. To: Mad Dog (#38) (Edited) Sapiens nihil affirmat quod non probat. As I said, I can understand why you care so much for your dogs. Most people who don't socialize with others well usually have to get kindness from somewhere and usually this is animals that assume this role. Frankly Steve, I don't know you well enough personally to go postal on you. And even if I did change my outlook on life to accept revenge as a viable way to do things, the last thing I would do is hurt an innocent animal. You should ask yourself why you default to fears of revenge. You will find that in invoking such fears involves projecting how you do things in live on me. ;-D ![]() #41. To: Mad Dog (#38) #1742. To: Mudboy Slim (#1725) In other words, your false sense of superiority is used by you to justify a fuckwit stance in forum. Fuckwit is an old USENET term for someone who lives to abuse others and rhetorically bludgeon a discussion to a standstill. Further, you admit the real reason you do this; to entertain yourself if possible by recreationally going after others. Frankly, if you can't vicariously cop a thrill by typing out a written form of an obscene phone call, the activity does not interest you. By the way, the George Parks Hwy is very scenic. Though the small size of the timber takes some getting used to to my Oregonian perspective. But I see why you like it up there. ;-D It's colder, but in many ways the pan handle and southern coat of Alaska is much like where I live climate-wise. ![]() . . . Comments (42 - 91) not displayed. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest |
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