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Is There a Drone In Your Backyard?

AZRay Wrote: May 17, 2012 1:07 PM
Simply removing Obama at "ALL expense" will change nothing if he's replaced with the same sort of big government, central planning, statist ilk like Romney. If you think Romney will change this drone policy you are most naive. R and D are both abusing the terrorist fear factor to strip us of liberty and expand federal power. Remember the quote was "Give me liberty or give me death" not "Give me liberty unless some scary terrorist might hurt me". Better odds of being struck by lightning than hurt by a terrorist, yet we roll over and let the Government run amok on this trumped up justification. Shameful!
You clearly speak from ignorance of RP's foreign policy. Where do you get these ideas? Just as he voted to go into Afghanistan after 9-11, he would have gone after the pirates as well. They were a real threat who were attacking American's. Not a bogey-man threat of some scary nation that may someday have a weapon that might hurt us so we can use it as an excuse to go meddle in the affairs of a sovereign nation and keep the military-industrial complex humming along funded by your tax $. There is a huge difference between a strong defense from aggressors and foolish foreign entanglements that ultimately make us less secure.
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Ron Paul was Right and it Makes Some Green

AZRay Wrote: Aug 26, 2011 12:04 PM
Considering that you have better odds of being killed in a plane crash than by a terrorist attack, I think his views are the most reasonable out there. Power hungry politicians rule by promoting fear so the public thinks they need their protection. The whole GWOT is way over-hyped for that very purpose. RP's foreign policy will do more to squelch the terror threat than anything in the Constitution shredding Patriot Act. Many more Americans have died fighting overseas in wars to stop the terrorists than they could ever have killed through direct attacks on our country. A truly 'reasonable' view like RP's is exactly what we need.
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Ron Paul was Right and it Makes Some Green

AZRay Wrote: Aug 26, 2011 10:10 AM
He is simply being practical. Are we the nuclear policemen of the world? Where did we get that authority? We have the right to tell a sovereign nation whether or not thay can have nukes? What do you suggest we do? Start yet another conflict to try to stop them by force? We don't have to be happy about Iran having nukes, but practically speaking there is really nothing we can do about it. Impractically speaking of course we could go down the same road we went with Iraq. How's that working out for you? Your response is purely an emotional and psuedo-patriotic one. Politicians love to play to that sort of emotion. Thankfully Ron does not play those political games, he just speaks the truth. Sorry if you're not used to hearing that.
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Ron Paul was Right and it Makes Some Green

AZRay Wrote: Aug 26, 2011 9:56 AM
It's nice to see a favorable article on Ron Paul here for a change. Thank you Peter!
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Ron Paul was Right and it Makes Some Green

AZRay Wrote: Aug 26, 2011 9:55 AM
Perry would just be Bush 2.0. No make that 3.0 since W was 2.0. And that is just how the Obama folks would paint him. He wouldn't stand a chance.
Listen up everyone! Patrick is the self-proclaimed righteous one here. Clearly only he has the moral authority to impose his beliefs on everyone else. That is his "logical" argument. Don't you get it?
The laws upholding slavery were replaced with laws forbidding it, so your agument does not fit the case. How does removing laws regarding marriage force you to do business with gay couples? There is nothing that should force you to recognize or acknowledge such a marriage if you don't want to. If we are to enjoy essential liberty in this country, then neither you nor the goverment have the right to define "God's natural order" for anyone but yourself. To do so is to try to force your own moral standards down the throats of everyone else. Thus my original point about the hypocrisy of this way of thinking. This was the sin of the Parisees. The were so proud of how well they knew the word of God. It was they that Jesus rebuked, but the...
You're kidding right? Where have you been the past few decades? Reps and Dems are clearly both pro-war, though neither will bother to declare them lawfully.
Fortunately our founding fathers didn't set up a theocracy. So your personal interpretation of the Bible can't be imposed on the rest of us. Why don't you follow your own advice and leave them alone and let God be the judge. I spent 10 years in various fundamentalist churches and commotted all those passages to memory as well. What I learned is the humilty not to impose my frail understanding of God on others. I hope you come to the same realization one day.
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