Posted on 10/31/2004 1:39:18 PM PST by alfons
This election is indeed very important. However, what this election is about is whether or not we wish to have limited government once and for all not just by paying lip service to that concept but by deed which the Republicans have abandoned totally. I came from Cuba in 1961. I came to this country seeking liberty. When I became an American citizen I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution Of The United States. I took and still take that oath very seriously. I came to this contry where everyone is supposed to enjoy privacy. I came to this country where the powers of government are supposed to be limited by the Bill Of Rights. Unfortunately, our civil liberties are being eroded with certain portions of Patriot Act 1 Patriot Act 2. Admisnistrative subpoenas are being issued without any apparent judicial oversight as set forth in the Constitution of the U.S. Government spending has increased dramatically under the present adminsitration. Property rights have been eroded. Just look at some of those land grabs. The present adminsitration also has failed to veto a single bill from Congress concerning spending other than for the war effort. Sure, we got a tax cut. However, that cut has just about been eliminated with more government spending. Both Republicans & Democrats have become the parties of BIG GOVERNMENT. It seems that our representatives in Washington with the exception of Ron Paul and a few others,also indicate that they would protect the Constitution, but in reality they do not.
To me this is a time where we have to stand up for that which we believenot by mere words but by deeds. I took my oath of citizenship very seriously and will always do so. Voting for a Democrat or Republican for president is in my opinion compromising our principles. The reason why the Libertarian Party candidate for president is not so well known has to do with the Commission Of Presidential Debates which is a bipartisan dictatorship. The third parties have to have the right to participate in those debates. To me by they not being allowed to do so, goes against the First Ammendment. We cannot ask the big paternalistic government for our rights. We demand them as they were endowed by our Creator.
We need to standup and say with one clear voice, we demand our rights and we will exercise those natural rights. By voting for Michael Badnarik one will be sending out that clear and unequivocal message. I voted for Mr. badnarik and I am proud of having done so. I have absolutely no regrets. At the end of the day, I can sleep well at night, with the knowledge that I have lived up to that oath I took when I became an AMERICAN!.
dork alert
I done "did voted" Republican!!
You do realize that because of your title, most people did not read your post?
"Bednarik has been arrested multiple times because he refuses to get a drivers license, he has been denied many opportunities because he refuses to give out his thumb print or social security number. He still believes that US currency is unconstitutional, and only uses coinage in his business transactions. He's a fruit!"
I'll agree he's eccentric in his preference to confront the police state by not getting a driver's license and related activities, but US currency IS unconstitutional. The Constitution authorizes Congress to mint coinage and regulate the value thereof. It does not, however, empower Congress to authorize a private banking cartel to print fiat money with no value whatsoever.
To those of you attacking Alfons, shame on you. He is a Cuban immigrant who fled Castro, and has worked hard to attain the American dream. He takes his responsibility as a Citizen seriously, unlike many of you. He has realized that both major parties have discarded ideas about liberty, the rule of law, or the commonwealth tradition. Despite his admittedly questionable grammar, you should take a lesson from him.
I did voted for Badnarik too. :)
I respect your pluck, if not your decision.
Keep us up to date when the next Libertarian gets elected County Engineer somewhere.
I've decided to stay Republican, but increase activity in the RLC; that's the future for Libertarians who do not want to remain irrelevant.
I defend your right to vote for whomever you want, I for one will not join you in the party of anarchy.
It's "why I DONE voted Libertarian," DUMBASS.
So do you think we should have declared war on the USSR in the 1930s, since Stalin was then exterminating (by some estimates) 7 million Ukrainians?
For that matter, do you think we should have fought Japan and Germany and the USSR simultaneously in World War Two? After all, Stalin was exterminating people in greater numbers than either Japan or Germany, and as you suggest, we should not worry about making too many enemies.
We need more Libretarians in the fashion of Neal Boortz!
I vote Libertarian or Republican, as principles and pragmatics dictate. Since I live in WA, a state whose electoral votes were all going to Kerry regardless, whichever I chose couldn't have affected the outcome. So which did I prefer as a statement of my policy preferences? This time I had to say Bush, because he's strong (well, relatively) on the global struggle between civilization and Islamofascist barbarism, and Badnarik doesn't even seem aware of it.
I also vote for Libertarians or Republicans, depending upon the race. I live in Illinois, and, in the 2002 race for secretary of state, I heard that the republican nominee, Winnebago Co. Board Chairwoman Chris Kohn, was more liberal than many Democrats. She wanted her county government to pay for a new highway and a new prison, although not many people wanted either one. I knew that the incumbent, democrat Jesse White, would win, so I voted for the libertarian candidate who got 2% of the vote. White got about 65%.
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