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Thursday, October 05, 2006
Chuck Colson :: Townhall.com Columnist
Trading votes for pork
by Chuck Colson
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Chuck Colson was the Chief Counsel for Richard Nixon and served time in prison for Watergate-related charges. In 1976, Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, which, in collaboration with churches of all confessions and denominations, has become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Oct 7, 2006 - 9:34 PM EST
Common Defense

No I am not a Libertarian, I refuse to wear labels, too many Libertarians are Anarchists, I believe in a strong but minimal federal government, minimal does not mean weak it means a government restricted to it's only moral purpose, to defend the indiviaul rights and private property rights of every indiviual within it's geographical jurisdiction.

The proper role of government is to act as a monopoly on the use of RETALIATORY force against those who would INITIATE force against others. It's role is to safeguard indiviual rights and private property rights, that IS the common defense, defense against the INITIATORS of force, foreign and domestic. In this light I believe that government must absolutely strong, restricted to a strong police, a strong military, and the courts of law.

In a free society schools, roads, charity, scientific research, luxury homes on the beachfront destroyed by hurricanes, etc., are to be payed for by private means, not by "pork" or entitlements, not by government INITIATING force and taking money through taxation and inflation from you to pay for me.
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Date: Oct 7, 2006 - 2:35 AM EST
Because
Wealthy, populous states involved in a collective defense regime will either contribute more to the common defense or the common defense will be relatively weak.

AlwaysQuestion, what do you think government should do? I sense you are a libertarian.
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