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RE: Minority Report
By Ringold on 12/27/2007 1:00:44 AM , Rating: 3
George Washington and his entire motley crew of founding fathers would point out (as would libertarian-minded conservatives of the Goldwater breed) that this isn't a problem of just Bush's, or Republicans or Democrats, but the ultimate goal of all governments: expanded power and control over the people and the economy.

One of them, I think Franklin, even suggested America needed an armed rebellion every 15 or 20 years I believe in order to be sure freedom wasn't being rolled back.

Instead we waited until the 1860s for our first BIG armed rebellion against further expansion of federal power (which is really what the Civil War was about, slavery was a secondary issue), and after 600,000+ soldiers died plus an unknown number of civilians, and the rebellion not only failed but provided with Lincoln the first precedent of massive federal power as well as a precedent for temporary dictatorial powers for a President (though none has happened to use such powers and then live long enough to see what the consequences would be). States rights were dead; everything that has happened since has been, in a way, inevitable. Such is the power of the dark side -- I mean, government.

This is why small-government conservatives are, well.. small government conservatives! Or libertarian, however you want to split it. I try to be fair regarding Bush, but wont claim him as one of my own.


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