Fireworks: Man At McCain Town Hall Tells Him "I'd Have You Arrested For Treason"

On Friday, a man attending a town hall hosted by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in Prescott confronted the senator and told him he should be arrested and charged with treason for supporting al Qaeda in Syria.

"We the people want you to be representative of the people and for this great nation, but for far too long now on the rest of Congress, including the executive branch of government, along with the judicial and legislative have turned your back on the American people and their core values and principles. I can say with great confidence and speak on behalf of all Americans that your actions against this country are treasonous. All of you -- against the will of the American people -- have aided and abetted the enemy," said the town hall attendee.

Although you have created the illusion that you are a sophisticated protectionist, as opposed to the regular kind of protectionist, you are all equally misguided.

Nonsense. I make the case that local governments have the obligation to represent their citizens with the citizens to deal with the consequences. Governments therefore need the latitude to do so, otherwise known as "sovereignty." There is nothing about direct collective control of private property in that regard, but there is implicit the power to structure markets pursuant to the rule of law. The more limited is the scope of government the more likely it is that they as individuals will be forced by natural law competition to make concessions to what you regard as "free trade." You just don't like that so you want irresponsibility uniformly mandated worldwide, effectively negating representation worldwide.

You all are essentially statists. You believe the individual is subservient to the state.

Accordingly, you are a corporate collectivist and a globalist, who have done more to damage the rights of individual natural persons to manage property than anyone. Why? Because the power to control the state is the power to control property. This is why the tax-exempt "charitable" foundations of major stockholders are the principal SPONSORS of regulatory government. Hence, you are the statist, as is evidenced by non-representative global governance in the WTO and other illegal "trade agreements" (which should be treaties). You deny the right to free association, except for stockholders hiding behind a legal fiction as "persons" in order to limit their accountability. It's a race to the bottom.

Protectionism denies freedom when it is an act of the state. Free trade is the absence of the government from the trade relations between free people.

Your definition of "protectionism" is subjective. I believe that a nation that intends to defend itself needs an industrial infrastructure. Apparently you do not.

Free trade is the absence of the government from the trade relations between free people.

Ideological mouthing without comprehension. It is an ENFORCED "absence" of individual responsibility, which is the flip side of subsidy. It is an ENFORCED "interdependency," which is in reality little more than DEPENDENCY. I prefer "independence," for without it there is no freedom.

If you want them to be treaties subject to senate ratification instead of trade agreements then I am OK with that.

Ideally there would be a constitutional amendment (never going to happen) limiting (not eliminating - think North Korea and Iran) the power of the federal government to impose protectionist tariffs on any foreign entity. You would call this unilateral surrender. I call it “consumer surplus” which benefits the American consumer. If foreign entities subsidize the goods we buy then so be it.

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