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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Peter J. Wirs :: Townhall.com Columnist
Stop Griping Conservatives, This is It
by Peter J. Wirs
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As promised, this is it. We delivered. The future of the Republican Party is now available for your inspection, by clicking on http://www.GOPonDemand.com. This is the public "beta" version of GOP onDemand,™ the gateway to your constitutional right to guide and instruct your Republican Party. You, the loyal readers of Townhall.com are the very first to see, to critique, to interact with GOP onDemand.™

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GOP onDemand™ also represents the Republican Party's transition from lobbyist-dominated, big ticket fund raisers to online campaign fund raising. Instead of being beholden to the special interests, the GOP becomes responsive to everyday Republicans. Continued...
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Peter J. Wirs is currently the Chairman & Co-Trustee of the Republican Leadership Trust as well as the incoming President of the National Conference of Public Officials. The views and opinions found in this article represent the author's views and opinions and not those of any institution or organization with which the author is affiliated.
 
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Reply # 1
Date: May 21, 2008 - 10:02 PM EST
opposite week concluded
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You keep writing things like "in order to punish, the government must conduct surveillance ...". Again - the government does NOT conduct surveillance on me as I raise my children, but if I kill one, they'll be able to "gather evidence, arrest, indict, and convict" me and anyone that helped me anyway. A properly crafted abortion law would be similar.

"as if voluntary abortion is undertaken through 'malevolence.'" - yeah, I consider intentionally killing your own children to be a great example of malevolence. (Obviously if mom's about to die and regrettably ends a pregnancy that would end when she dies anyway, that's a different story - but those abortions are a vanishingly small percent - and would be legal under "my law"). A child conceived from rape or incest is no less human than any other child, so I would not make an exception there.

"...agents of the government can and *WOULD* wire the pregnant woman for 24-hour-a-day monitoring." And then she can sue under the 4th Amendment and have that stupid policy overturned.

"Note that the privacy provisions of HIPAA protect your private health information from everyone *BUT* the government, which is arguably the one agency in society that no American citizen wants to have looking into his/her medical records."

- I completely agree.

Your entire position can be summed up as "anarchy - Which is preferable to a police state.". The whole concept of limited government for the last 400 years, best codified in our constitution, is how to find a happy medium between anarchy and tyranny. My position here is completely within that spirit.

And finally, "... Pregnancy Police statutes for which chris is calling." yeah - maybe in opposite world. Instead of making up positions for me, why don't you read what I wrote.
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Date: May 21, 2008 - 10:00 PM EST
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... [man, pasting from notepad sure made a hash of my comments]

Child Abuse - I have major problems with the way various "child protective services" agencies usually operate - by presuming guilt, and many times attempting to perform warrantless searches. I would have the same problem with any "Pregnancy Police" agency.

I already said in earlier posts that parents are responsible for their children, not the government, so the government should not dictate what a women does to her body - even when pregnant - unless she has done it to kill her baby on purpose. It is NO business of the government if a woman choses to smoke or whatever while pregnant. And sex while pregnant is probably good for the mother...

"All of this [forcing potential mothers to live healthy], chris might argue, is obviously for the mother's own good" - must be some other guy named Chris. I've been very clear in previous posts about holding the OPPOSITE position to which you're attempting to ascribe to me.

If I wrote an anti-abortion law, it would be fairly easy for a woman to get away with it. But a HCP running an abortion mill would probably not get away with it for long - someone would eventually file a criminal complaint about something, and after getting a warrant, the police would investigate.

Like with "Child Protective Services", I'd even be interested in a provision that no anonymous tips be investigated, and that a false informant is liable for the various damages a criminal investigation causes. Sort of like "loser pays", but for criminal instead of civil cases.

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