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Re: Is your guitar DOJ approved?
While I disagree with your position on the extent of govt power, I agree that in some areas the govt has over-reached. Though I have a far more expansive view on the role of govt that you, I recognize the dangers of a govt with unfettered power to use force. This is a problem that both parties enthusiatically encourage, which is why I associate with neither. However, the way to rein in these abuses is not by making ideological arguments, but arguments of a more practical nature.
The american people reject oppresive states. Meanwhile, we spend hundreds of billions incarcerating people for minor offenses, and as a result we jail a larger segment of our population that so-called "police states" like China and North Korea. And that isn't counting those under govt supervision (ie probation, parole, and various criminal registries). We have confiscatory laws that impoverish people who are guilty of no crime, and the result has not been security; it makes all of subject to the whims of arbitrary forces with little to no chance of successfully seeking redress from the very state that oppresses us.
IOW, though we come from opposite ends of the political spectrum we have much in common. As americans, we share the opposition to concentrations of power which has always been the greatest threat to our liberty.
In sense your right, my real complaint is with congress and the ineptness they perform everyday. My complaint is what you state and the EPA is just a tool I wish to take away, it is just a avenue for congress to subvert our constitution and rights. I have many problems with our government and the over reaching powers that it has, I pick no sides except the side of what the constitution states, hence the term, "very conservative" or lets say contitutionalist. This isn't a party or presidential incident or complaint, it's more or less a complaint of the militarization of our law enforcement and it's over reaching powers and violations of our constitutional rights, along with their it's mentality that it's above the law.
While I disagree with your position on the extent of govt power, I agree that in some areas the govt has over-reached. Though I have a far more expansive view on the role of govt that you, I recognize the dangers of a govt with unfettered power to use force. This is a problem that both parties enthusiatically encourage, which is why I associate with neither. However, the way to rein in these abuses is not by making ideological arguments, but arguments of a more practical nature.
The american people reject oppresive states. Meanwhile, we spend hundreds of billions incarcerating people for minor offenses, and as a result we jail a larger segment of our population that so-called "police states" like China and North Korea. And that isn't counting those under govt supervision (ie probation, parole, and various criminal registries). We have confiscatory laws that impoverish people who are guilty of no crime, and the result has not been security; it makes all of subject to the whims of arbitrary forces with little to no chance of successfully seeking redress from the very state that oppresses us.
IOW, though we come from opposite ends of the political spectrum we have much in common. As americans, we share the opposition to concentrations of power which has always been the greatest threat to our liberty.