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As the most totalitarian tendencies of some of our neighbors coalesce around the “Global War on Terror” and “protecting the Homeland,” those of us who love liberty are finding ways to bypass the old artificial constraints of our cultural differences in all of our last ditch attempts to save the liberty that once distinguished America from the rest of the world.
Short of all out nuclear warfare, this country could never be destroyed by foreign enemies. We have a 10 trillion dollar economy, two friendly neighbors, two mountain ranges, and a population of three hundred million with five hundred million firearms. The danger to this country instead comes from our own government while at war abroad. As Americans are divided into “wimps and warriors,” dissent is equated with treason, incredible deficits are added to an already crippling national debt, the national police power undergoes wholesale restructuring and their authority over the states and our lives is extended, America is being destroyed from the inside out. As Randolph Bourne said, “War is the Health of the State.” And when the state is healthy, individual liberty is in danger. As James Madison pointed out, War is,
“the parent of armies. From these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few…. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
We can’t repeal the PATRIOT act and dismantle the Department of Homeland Security until we stop this self destructive foreign policy. And since the wars in question have absolutely nothing to do with protecting the American people, we ought to be able to get it done.
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