ROTFLMAO!
Let me hear all the "small government conservatives" explain how enforcing nanny-state contraband law with no-knock warrants, asset forfeiture, trampling the Fourth Amendment, destruction of privacy, and the ever-expanding Police State that comes along with it all is somehow a legitimate expression of their belief in "minimal government".
I'm tired of being expected to choose between the Authoritarian Left's and the Authoritarian Right's competing versions of Tyranny, as if either warped vision is valid.
The whole point of the "pursuit of happiness" is that others don't get to decide what any individual's "pursuit of happiness" should consist of, as long as that individual isn't infringing on anyone's Rights.
There's frequently not a dime's worth of difference between the Tyrannical Left and the Tyrannical Right: they both embrace Arbitrary Law whenever it suits their self-righteous impulses—and then they have the unmitigated gall to gripe when the other side does the same damn thing, using the same damn warped nanny-state logic.
A pox on both their houses. I'll take the "animating contest of Freedom"—warts and all—with all of its inconvenient, annoying challenges, such as honoring the spirit of the Declaration and the Constitution, instead of honoring unlimited State Power, for all intents and purposes.
But I digress. End rant...
“Let me hear all the “small government conservatives” explain how enforcing nanny-state contraband law with no-knock warrants, asset forfeiture, trampling the Fourth Amendment, destruction of privacy, and the ever-expanding Police State that comes along with it all is somehow a legitimate expression of their belief in “minimal government”.”
There are Police State Fan Boys on all sides of the political spectrum.
Damn fine rant, if I may say so........
Prima facie evidence that FR needs a “like” button
Right there with you brother.