Posted on 07/24/2002 8:50:13 AM PDT by toenail
Yes. Thanks to an intrepid reporter from National Review Online
A program is being planned to use millions of Americans to spy on their neighbors, an idea appropriate for a totalitarian society.
Yeah, and Hitler built the Autobahn, should we tear up all US highways, too?
Regardless of any assurances, we all know that the national ID card will soon be instituted.
Really? We know this? How prescient of us!
Who believes for a moment that the military will not be used to enforce civil law in the near future?
Gee, Ron, you should write science fiction.
Posse comitatus will be repealed by executive order or by law,
It will? What will the lottery numbers be tomorrow, Ron?
Instead, war fever will build until the warmongers get their wish and we march on Baghdad, making us even a greater target of those who despise us for our bellicose control of the world.
And now we go from simple arrogance to downright stupidity. What are we supposed to do? Sit and cower behind our chairs with our eyes shut and our bodies curled into a fetal position and hope -- against hope -- that the big bad meanies will just leave us alone?
A new department is hardly what we need.
You know, I would think a libertarian would be for the streamlining of government instead of a host of alphabet-soup agencies with overlapping jurisdictions and inefficient bureaucracies. Ron Paul against government streamlining. Who woulda thought?
A common sense improvement to homeland security would allow the DOD to provide protection,
Uh, the DoD is the military. You know, the ones who are going to lead us into an apocolyptic nightmare when they start enforcing civil law.
Ron Paul, we hardly knew ye. Fortunately, you're doing a very fine parody of yourself.
And if you really think an entity that controls both the guns and the money can be reformed or made more efficient, I have some waterfront property in Florida to sell you.
As I suggested to someone else today, you should hold your breath for all the federal government layoffs once the agencies are consolidated into the DHS. Really. It's gonna happen.
That's a lie, in Tom Ridge's case. Keep that knee from jerking and check out what Ridge actually said. You still might not like it, but it's not what you attributed to him.
Besides, I oppose changing the PCA except where WMDs are involved but lest we not forget that the republic survived 89 years before the PCA and it was only enacted in order to end Reconstruction.
Regardless, I'm not going to play Turkey Lurkey to Ron Paul's Chicken Little.
Time to give up, then! Why bother? Throw in the towel! Bring plenty of canned food to the Fallout Shelter, ma!
I have some waterfront property in Florida to sell you.
Uh, I don't think you want to say "Florida".
OK, screen names are fun and all, but sometimes we're forced to call in the guys with the white coats.
Trust me, it's a lonely role on the libertarian threads.
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