http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627138/posts?page=306#306
“Absolutely not! And it was also never intended to be a tool for evil! They cannot FORCE atheism or abortion or homosexual marriage on us any more than they can legally take away our guns or over tax us or force us to buy an insurance policy against our will.
America was founded on the principle that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are the rights to Life and Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness!! Look it up!
Limited government! Individual Liberty!
The government needs to butt OUT!!
As it is the liberals run rough-shod over us and the evil they cannot accomplish legislatively, the scum in black robes takes care of for them. Time to bring back tar and feathers!!
DON’T TREAD ON ME!!! “
Which is what I’ve been saying the entirety of my 11 years on FR. It’s the FREEDOM stupid.
I posted word for word what Jim said and you questioned it. You do backpedal fine!
Freedom.
Not license and anarchy.
Darkwolf said it very well here in this post..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627400/posts?page=131#131
I don’t know, I am sorry to be ranting, but...I just don’t get it. This attitude is truly bizarre to me—the thinking seems to be, “Wellll, we couldn’t stop booze, so we can’t stop drugs, and should make those legal, and we can’t stop abortions so we should make THOSE legal...”
While we’re at it, by the same “logic” posted elsewhere on this, look at all the murders that take place by people who KNOW there are penalties for it.
Why make laws? SOMEONE is going to break ALL of them.
Ranting, ranting, sorry...but I just think if we can’t argue against killing babies, we might as well just forget the whole deal, because we won’t have a society that deserves preservation.
And this vanity by TCH....
TEA Party Groups Playing With Fire (Vanity)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2627602/posts
I said this on another thread......
The rights guaranteed us in the Constitution do not equate to giving people the *right* to do whatever they fancy regardless of he consequences or impact on society.
The right to *life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness* is not license to hold the rest of society hostage to whatever behavior one person happens to feel like engaging in at the moment without regard to it's impact on others around him.
There is an obligation for anyone who wants to be part of society to be willing to work with others to make that society safe and productive and free. And, strange as it may sound, that includes sometimes restricting what one wants to do for the benefit of others. Libertarians are typically blind to this aspect of it. Or unwilling to acknowledge it.
The problem comes in when people refuse to voluntarily restrict their behavior out of courtesy for others. The others generally don't like being held hostage to the demands of one aberrant individual, and so the government ends up stepping in to impose external controls on that person's behavior.
Ironic as it ends up being, those who hold the libertarian position of unbridled license for all to do whatever they please without restriction or fear of consequences, are the very ones the most responsible for the INCREASE in government interference in people's personal lives, as the government is called on by the general populace to protect them from those who will not cooperate with others in society.