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This is just more anti-government rhetoric from the hero of the libertarians. Ron Paul needs to get a new approach to politics and life. These current attempts by Paul, to undermine the Bush administrations efforts to fight terrorism is appalling and clearly his basic strategy isn't working. The Patriot Act was passed in non-partisan fashion and gives law enforcement agencies, the required latitude to hunt down and bring to justice criminals and terrorists who want to bring death and destruction to our great nation. It's also true, Ron Paul's support beyond the fringe extremists here on FR and his home district, is non-existent. Fact is, Paul couldn't get elected as a Libertarian, so he decided to deceive his constituency and run as a Republican. He would be better served if he became a Democrat. He certainly isn't a Republican and can't be considered a well rounded conservative either, in any true sense of the word.

Sure, I believe that good citizens should report suspicious activities to the proper authorities, it's the right thing to do, but this TIPS program looks too much like Communist Cuba's Committees to Defend the Revolution to have my support.

Will the day come when I'll be sitting on my patio reading my Bible when the meter reader shows up and spots the "hate speech" in my hands? You know it will. Bush needs to look further down the line and imagine these powers in the hands of a Hillary or another Reno. This is a very bad idea...all of it.

As I sifted through the bickering, reading the occasional post of substance, I noticed that "Libertarian" and "libertarian" are being used interchangably.

Both quotes from Ronald Reagan make sense to people on both sides of this issue, if you take notice of where the "l" is lower case, and where it is capitalized.

The libertarian ideology is not one and the same as the Libertarian Party platform. I consider myself a libertarian. I am not part of the Libertarian Party, nor do I intend to register as a Libertarian. Just a few examples of where I differ from the Libertarian Party:
- I support "profiling"
- I support maintaining an offensively natured, forward deployed, nuclear-armed, standing military
- I think the Libertarian Party platform contradicts itself, where it reads that children should not be allowed to force a religion upon their children, but then goes on to say that "Parents, or other guardians, have the right to raise their children according to their own standards and beliefs"
- I also think that abortion is unconstitutional and thus it should be banned