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<blockquote data-quote="CharlieMurphy" data-source="post: 2717619" data-attributes="member: 31193"><p>The problem is the conspiracy is so vast and so evil that there are many who refuse to believe it. Plus , to admit the truth is to admit how ignorant we were. They continue to this day to manipulate us through fear of things like a nuclear Iran, ISIS, or other terrorist organizations. They have created a war that we can never win and even if it could you could never prove it. Even if all the major terrorist threats were gone, our path would remain the same. The government would seize more and more power claiming the need to protect from all those unseen radicals, Muslim or otherwise, hiding in the population. Any violent attacker is now classified as a terrorist instead of just a criminal and seems to justify the enhanced security state.</p><p></p><p>We need to get away from legislating out of fear and start legislating for the future. Sure there are bad people out there who want to do bad things but part of being an American is understanding those risks but also understanding personal freedom and responsibility is more important than our safety. You often hear politicians, including Rand Paul, saying that national defense is the number one responsibility of the federal government. That is absolutely incorrect. The number one responsibility of the federal government is to defend individual liberty above all else. Many times the two coincide more more often the two seem to be at odds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CharlieMurphy, post: 2717619, member: 31193"] The problem is the conspiracy is so vast and so evil that there are many who refuse to believe it. Plus , to admit the truth is to admit how ignorant we were. They continue to this day to manipulate us through fear of things like a nuclear Iran, ISIS, or other terrorist organizations. They have created a war that we can never win and even if it could you could never prove it. Even if all the major terrorist threats were gone, our path would remain the same. The government would seize more and more power claiming the need to protect from all those unseen radicals, Muslim or otherwise, hiding in the population. Any violent attacker is now classified as a terrorist instead of just a criminal and seems to justify the enhanced security state. We need to get away from legislating out of fear and start legislating for the future. Sure there are bad people out there who want to do bad things but part of being an American is understanding those risks but also understanding personal freedom and responsibility is more important than our safety. You often hear politicians, including Rand Paul, saying that national defense is the number one responsibility of the federal government. That is absolutely incorrect. The number one responsibility of the federal government is to defend individual liberty above all else. Many times the two coincide more more often the two seem to be at odds. [/QUOTE]
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