The Constitution as a Basis for God's/Nature's Inalienable Rights

All Plants have been granted to mankind and all of Earth's creatures by God and/or Nature. These are Inalienable Rights over which No Man or This Government can legally (according to the Constitution) interfere.

Like a platform on which to base Pot Legalization:

The US Is "a Distorted, Bastardized Form of Illegitimate Government."
U-STEPUP Questions: Why Isn't That Enough to Unite the Minor Political Parties?
"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." --- James Madison.
James Madison, "Father of The Constitution", and all of the signers of The Constitution were adamant, or in agreement with the historical background interpretation. Without a historical background interpretation, our Constitutional Founders could not give The People their inalienable rights and protection from their own government. They made sure their intent was known via various quotes, manuscripts and Preambles..
Ever seen the Preamble to the Bill of Rights <http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html>? The People are informed of the Preamble to the Constitution whenever the Constitution is referenced. Yet, the Preamble is rarely seen when referring to the Bill of Rights. Immediately after: the official notice of time, place, and who, the very next paragraph of The Preamble to The Bill of Rights is: THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution. (The Preamble started out as an amendment, but, apparently after discussion, it was felt that this was too important to make just an amendment. The Constitution had a Preamble. The Bill of Rights, which was required for ratification of The Constitution, certainly should have one too.)
Yet, these predominately learned lawyers of this klepto-nazi'cratic government, don't have a clue on how to interpret "this Constitution". Where do the other interpretations enter "this Constitution". There are no ratified others. (Continued at: http://thepriceofliberty.org/ward.htm ).

Please increase your Rights by forwarding this post to all that may be interested. Another Article, "The Historical Background Constitution" will more clearly elucidate what Rights have been stolen from The People by this kepto-nazi'crat government.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Ed Ward, MD, MT.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Just blah... blah... blah.. blah...

Ed :( purple Rights Face for the Acitivism here. Oh, pot will be legal in no time at that rate. One of God's/Natures gifts to all Species, and some klepo-nazi'cratic dirtball says, "I know more than God, Nature, Centuries of Evoulution, The Constituion of this United States of America, and The People."

the 'crats Decree, for the Safety of the mass, "We are more smarter. We know what is best for the people. the people don't need no stickin' rights. We need to protect them from themselves. It's not political prison. It's helping them to get their heads right. It's "Encouraging them". DANGER, 'Wil' T. People. DANGER. Flee, the Fear. Oppress the rest. "the 'crats" know best.

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http:www.thepriceofliberty.org/ward.htm

Ed

Listen to our Founding Fathers. They will tell you

Ed

This is a marijuana website. Everybody I would think agrees that marijuana should be legal. We all know that it is a god given right. We all know that that politicians have outlawed the drug more for political reasons than that of any legitimate heath concern.
As far as constitutional issues go; The constitution lost any balls it had left more than 100 years ago. It is a devise that will be manipulated by the rich and powerful. It is only able to slow them down. The founding fathers knew this well. Madison would have been tickled to death had he known the republic were to last 230 years. The founding fathers couldn't have imagined it lasting even 50. The point is, the founding fathers are dead and would have no concept our times. They are irrelevant(in practice). They are to far removed from us to have any bearing on current legal outcomes. For that you need to dig into more recent case law. I don't like it, but that is the way it is.

Because, I got facts with my stuff. Have you gone to my page and read my stuff? CAUSE I GOT WAY MORE FACTS THAN WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME.

Take a look, then I'll be glad to discuss Your Plans of Action and their validity.

Hey, thanks for the kewl post. ;)

My Best to You and Yours,

Ed :cool:

"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation." James Madison (1751-1836)

The Historical Background Constitution answers all.

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Vital Quotes that Describe, Without a Doubt, Exactly What "this Constitution", The Historical Background Constitution, Is. It's Very Plain. If You Read These Quotes, It Does Not Take a Law Degree to See That the government of Today is What The Founding Fathers Called TYRANNY Then.

James Madison

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government." --- James Madison.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men ... you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation." James Madison (1751-1836)

Thomas Jefferson

"All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution."-------- Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men. We . solemnly publish and declare, that these colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states . and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honour.

"I have sworn before the alter of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson, Letter to B. Rush, Sept. 23, 1800

The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposition, and pursuing a conduct, conciliatory and friendly to all nations, has been sincerely entertained and faithfully followed. It was dictated by the principles of humanity, the precepts of the gospel, and the general wish of our country, and it was not to be doubted that the Society of Friends, with whom it is a religious principle, would sanction it by their support.

"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none."

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

"It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating in order to punish them."

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.. A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, January 30, 1787"

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

"Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual."

"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it's liberty and interests by the most lasting bands. As long therefore as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or any thing else. But our citizens will find employment in this line till their numbers, and of course their productions, become too great for the demand both internal and foreign.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means.

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Originally Posted by Ed Ward MD

"If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation." James Madison (1751-1836)

The Historical Background Constitution answers all.

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I agree. It ought not b questioned. But it has been questioned. That government ceased to exist in 1861. It now exists only in theory.
The United states is run by as RaLPH nADER SAYS, 'a single political party with 2 wings' That so called republican government is no different the the Chinese communist party. It would be like if the chinese decide to make the a party and the b party, but they have to vote for people with communist party membership. What a democracy.

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Which statements?

Take a look at this.. www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo32.html
This is how America became an empire

some facts, none that show USA is an empire. Alot of opinion and conjucture.
I have a ratified Constitution. The only ratified Constitution. Afraid you will have to be a little more specific for your empire. Say, you prove this 'empire' theory, that has nothing to do with the foundations of our government. What does it change? The Constitution is here and usable. And it's about time The People started knowing what they are being screwed out of. Many their lives. Yep, even potheads have snuffed themselves in jails. There is much suffering and death being heaped on The People. Let's sit around and get sidetracked over "i wanna call it an empire". The People can call it what they want. But, they need to start calling it something and soon. Most of The People HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS GOV WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. Why don't you assist in informing The People of Rights they don't have clue about? Or, continue on a diatribe of empire, cause I got things to do.

My best to you and yours,

Ed ;) :( :confused: :rolleyes:

Its my bedtime(im in asia) so I will make this brief and we can continue tomorrow. Please do some research in the meantime.
Alexander Hamilton, as opposed to Jefferson/Madison believed in a strong Federal Government. He did not get it......The country followed the Jeffersonian/STates right theme. Madison was able to succesfully convince congress that it was unconstitutional to build roads canals etc....The federal Gevernment was practically non-existant.

Henry Clay Kept kept Hamiltons Merchantilistic fantasies alive. He never succeded with his plan but he did convince a young Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln worshipped Clay. Lincoln thought the Federal Government needed to build railroads, roads, canals, kill indians faster. He wanted(and got) a Federal income tax. He wanted a national bank. (Prior to lincoln each state had its own currency.)
How did he acomlish this? By smashing the constitution into little pieces at the barrel of a gun using slavery as a pretext for war. The civil was an illegal war. States had a constitutional right to suceed..(read) Lincoln was so out of control, that he sent the national guard into the Maryland legislature to keep them from suceeding. He suspended Habeous corpus laws without any legal authority. He threatened to incarcerate the chief justice of the united states supreme court because he complained. (read the link for more anti-lincoln stuff)
If you know anything about history, you know that nationalizing such a large area of land at that time was empire in itself. Once it was done, people in washington had control of all americans. The 9th and tenth amendments were circumvented. thirty years after the war, with the indian wars coming to a close they could not stop expanding....thus the spanish America war(conquest/imperilism) then World War one with Woodrow Wilson the great lincoln wannabe and WW two and about thirty little wars since. We now have hegemony and within our countries borders lawmakers have nowhere else to expand so they expand their power into us. We are all the new indians. They trim our rights and pass drug laws.

I know thats a half ass definition but I cant teach all of American History in 15 minutes. I assumed you knew some of this stuff. Read about AMerican Imperilism since the Civil war.

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some facts, none that show USA is an empire. Alot of opinion and conjucture.
I have a ratified Constitution. The only ratified Constitution. Afraid you will have to be a little more specific for your empire. Say, you prove this 'empire' theory, that has nothing to do with the foundations of our government. What does it change? The Constitution is here and usable. And it's about time The People started knowing what they are being screwed out of. Many their lives. Yep, even potheads have snuffed themselves in jails. There is much suffering and death being heaped on The People. Let's sit around and get sidetracked over "i wanna call it an empire". The People can call it what they want. But, they need to start calling it something and soon. Most of The People HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS GOV WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. Why don't you assist in informing The People of Rights they don't have clue about? Or, continue on a diatribe of empire, cause I got things to do.

My best to you and yours,

Ed ;) :( :confused: :rolleyes:

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Without power you can do nothing. There are millions of people just like u Ed and they know how to handle you. They own the media. All u have is your soul.

So because I can not do Everything? That means I can just sit on my ass and mona? For The People to react They Have to Know what has been stolen from them? I'm trying to inform and be active in my city. What are you doing? Want to tell me some more about what you can inform me of?

I am epublished. I am doing All I Can Do. I can not make anyone listen. I just want The People to at least be exposed. What is so bad about the HBC except that it takes all the abusive power out of this nazicratic government.

Please help me out somemore? I'm certainly looking for advice from the sidelines.

:( Ed
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Ed
I would suggest taking 3 years and learn how to write. I would also suggest learning about what your talking about. Not to be mean, but you make no sense, and only seem intereted in making yourself look smart, or saving the union so as to make yourself a hero.

you are confused. Are you having trouble with words? Sentences? Reading? Where can I help your confusion? I'd hate the concept of what this government was supposed and ratified to be was lost just because you aren't that bright. Help this poor writer, learn. Maybe I too can be useless and counterproduct with enough instruction from one so well indoctrinated.

Have fun, gotta actually do some things. I know it's confusing to you. But, some don't just type useless bs. Far beyond your comprehension, I'm sure.

Ed

whatever

Ed
I wasn't trying to insult you. I was giving you an honest opinion. You really do need to learn how to express your self better. Anybody who has past eng 111 can see that. Have you noticed that I am the only person willing to have a dialogue with you? Several people have sarcastically suggested that your writing and your webpage is shit. Is your only response to insult them and say they are to stupid to get it?
Writing is not supposed to be done so only the writer gets it Ed. Your supposed to make your self clear no matter how complicated the subject matter. Here online it doesn't matter if u spell your words wrong or if you use a comma when u should use a semicolin; but you should make your self clear. I tell you this so you can do a better job in the future of fighting the 'nazicratic' government, not to piss you off.
PEACE.....

Do you wish to have it explained to you? Are do you just want to keep writing BS? Yes, we both know the answer to that one. Come on, activists Need to know what the sideline galleries think or more appropriately, don't.

T.R. E!War!

Vote for a candidate who favors ACTUAL REFORM OF US MARIJUANA POLICY and is ACTUALLY ON THE BALLOT in at least 48 of the 50 states.

You want to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING???????? :confused:

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Medical Marijuana and the Federal War on Drugs

In the 2000 campaign for president, George W. Bush said that the federal government should not interfere with the medical marijuana policies of the several states. Like so many other promises, he went back on his word and has closed down medical marijuana facilities permitted by state governments.

This is an outrage. The federal government has no constitutional authority to interfere with state drug policies. When the federal government outlawed alcohol, it required a constitutional amendment to do so. Nonetheless it has assumed the legal authority to wage its "War on Drugs."

According to nearly every scientific study on the subject, including ones conducted by the government, medical marijuana provides unique relief to patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and other illnesses, and the drug does not have the same addictive properties as alcohol.

The federally approved Marinol contains the psychoactive THC but lacks other cannabinoids crucial to marijuana as an effective medicine. This is one of the many insanities of federal drug policy, which categorizes a plant that has never been shown to kill anyone as more illegal than cocaine, and certainly more illegal than alcohol.

Though smoking marijuanaâ??just as smoking tobaccoâ??can cause harm to the lungs and respiratory system, the drug can also be ingested and vaporized so as to prevent such unwanted side effects.

On a fundamental level, Libertarians believe that it is the unalienable and constitutional right of individuals to medicate themselves and choose for themselves what to put into their bodies, as long as they live up to the consequences of their actions. The federal government has no proper say in the matter, and state governments violate the rights of the people in their own attempts to enforce morality. The decision to ingest, smoke or consume any drug should be up to the individual, under the advice of his or her physician, when appropriate. Locking people up for trying to relieve their pain is cruel and unusual punishment for an act that hurts no one.

The Drug War has led to some of the worst violations of the constitutional liberties of Americans, as well as to the worst wave of violent crime in American history since Alcohol Prohibition. It has been used to rationalize unlawful searches and seizures, corruption of the court system, no-knock raids, racial profiling, and "civil asset forfeiture"â??a policy whereby government officials can confiscate private property without even charging anyone with a crime. The War on Drugs, more than anything else, has served as a means of destroying the Bill of Rights. It has also led to excessive taxes and spending, costing more than 40 billion dollars a year to arrest, prosecute and imprison non-violent drug offenders.

Drug Prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crime by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the over-crowding in prison caused by the Drug War. While violent criminals can usually have their sentences reduced, drug offenders are subject to "mandatory minimums," which strip away judicial discretion and force judges to put users and dealers in prison for decades. This has to stop.

The Drug War also has funded terrorists; providing them with opportunities for enormous profits, and even by giving foreign aid to such regimes as the Taliban as long as they promised to have "tough drug" policies.

The Drug War does not curb demand, it barely reduces supply, however it makes America much more dangerous and much less free.

A Libertarian president would order federal officials to cease and desist in harassing medical marijuana patients and would block federal spending on the War on Drugs. Nonviolent drug offenders would be released from federal prison, and each state would choose its own drug policy, just as each chose its own alcohol policy when alcohol Prohibition was repealed. Libertarians would hope and expect most states to come around and severely reform their policies to make them more humane and less at odds with the Constitution and the American way of life.

http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/MedicalMarijuana.php


Industrial Hemp

Government often prepares the way for oppressive legislation by exaggerating a current danger, or by rhetorically turning harmless people and things into bogeymen.

Certainly this has been the case with industrial hemp. Although it includes a technical exemption for hemp, The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 generally treats hemp like marijuana, its psychotropic cousin. Smoking industrial hemp to "get high" yields about the same result as smoking the evening newspaper; and while the government contends that hemp can be useful as camouflage for marijuana growth, even laymen can easily distinguish between the two.

What makes current federal policy so tragic is that industrial hemp is estimated to have 25,000 constructive uses. Indeed, until recently the qualities of perhaps the world's most useful plant were widely understood and utilized. Ironically, in early 17th Century America, laws existed REQUIRING farmers to grow hemp. Later, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both left glowing references to the plant in their writings.

Hemp even has a record of heroism: During WWII, the U.S. war effort needed hemp-based supplies so badly that it instituted the "Hemp for Victory" program. The beginnings of today's repressive policies were already in place by the late 30s, as a result of propaganda efforts waged against hemp by the petro-chemical and timber industries. However, when America's very survival was threatened, the government exempted farmers and their sons from military service if they'd agree to grow it.

The ahistorical perception that those interested in legalizing hemp cultivation are all drug users has far-reaching economic, ecological and humanitarian effects. Consider just a few of the benefits we're missing out on:

* According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report, "Hemp Hurds as a Paper-Making Material" (Bulletin No. 404), the core of the hemp stalk produces more than four times more paper than trees in proportion to land area cultivated.

* Raw hempseed oil can be used, without any modification, to power diesel engines.

* Thousands of natural food products, including staples like cheese and milk, are made from hempseed. Its protein content is higher than any plant source except soy -- and is more usable than soy as well.

* Although anyone can manufacture and sell hemp products in the U.S., it is illegal to cultivate the plant. An untold number of income opportunities, which would easily be supported by the growing demand for ecologically friendly alternatives, are denied the American work force. Availability of overseas hemp is insufficient to meet demand. Jobs -- not just in cultivation, but manufacture of goods -- are lost.

If the War on Drugs is senseless and unfathomable in light of reality -- and it is -- the prohibition on cultivating industrial hemp is even more so. Canada and the European Union have more enlightened -- and economically sound -- hemp policies than the United States.

The Bush Administration has attempted to ban hempseed food products which were formerly exempt from the definition of marijuana; foods that have no harmful effect whatsoever, and which aren't even remotely associated with recreational drug use.

As your President, I would open the way for free-market exploration and exploitation of industrial hemp. I'd veto legislation funding enforcement of laws against it, and I'd lobby Congress to repeal those laws.

Isn't it time we had a leader who defended the economic freedom which so well serves the interests of the American people?

http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/IndustrialHemp.php


Military Policy and the War in Iraq

The War in Iraq is a failure, and the U.S. government should never have waged it. As your president, one of my first tasks will be to begin the orderly process of bringing our troops home as quickly as can safely be accomplished.

More and more Americans are coming to oppose the war, the war hawks and high government officials are beginning to distance themselves from the president, and the U.S. seems more willing than ever to pull out of Iraq.

But this is not enough. We need to learn how this disaster happened, so we can prevent future disasters from happening.

First, allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle.

The U.S. government has meddled in the affairs of the Middle East far too long, always with horrendous results. It overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and replaced him with the Shah. After making Iranians the enemies of Americans, the U.S. government gave weapons, intelligence and money to Iran's mortal adversary, Saddam Hussein. The U.S. government also helped Libyan Col. Qaddafi come to power, propped up the Saudi monarchy and the Egyptian regime, and gave assistance to Osama bin Laden.

Most Americans have forgotten these events. But the people of the Middle East will always remember.

It was because of American troops in Saudi Arabia, lethal sanctions on Iraq, support for states in serious violation of International Law, and siding with Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians to the tune of more than $3 billion per year in taxpayers' funds that terrorist leaders were able to recruit those individuals who caused 3,000 Americans to pay the ultimate price on September 11, 2001.

The proper response would have been to present the evidence as to who committed the heinous act both to Congress and to the people, and have Congress authorize the president to track down the individuals actually responsible, doing everything possible to avoid inflicting harm on innocents.

A Libertarian president would not have sent the military trampling about the world, racking up a death count in the thousands, wasting tax money on destroying and re-building infrastructure, creating more enemies, and doing the kinds of things that led to 9/11 in the first place.

We cannot undo history, unfortunately.

The U.S. government has never succeeded in establishing freedom and democracy in any of its foreign adventures in the last fifty years. Freedom and democracy are blessings any people must establish for themselves.

Here at home, war leads to a decline in civil liberties, higher taxes, and wartime economic measures that blur the line between business and state, allowing politically favored corporations to profit at the expense of taxpayers.

Libertarians understand the importance of adhering to the Constitution, because it is designed to limit the power of the state here and abroad. And we especially understand the danger of war, which expands the power of the government far beyond its constitutional limits.

The founders of this country knew that war should not be initiated at the president's whim, and so the constitutional authority to wage war rests with Congress.

James Madison, father of the Constitution, said, "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." He also said, "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. . ."

In short, a libertarian foreign policy is one of national defense, and not international offense. It would protect our country, not police the world.

http://www.badnarik.org/Issues/IraqWar.php


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How is that? What 3rd party has a platform with any appeal to the majority of the populace? How does an uncounted voted vote help? Have you seen any government publishing of anything other than the 'crats votes, with the exception of Perot? None of the 3rd parties will even answer questions of Basic Rights to the People. Same as the 'crats. What is the difference? Hell at least the 'crats are in power. They have a reason not to respond. The libers have no power and already don't respond. So hot on Badnarik? See if he/they/staff/anyone will answer if they will follow the Historical Background Constitution when in power? They expect the poeple to adopt their limited but powerful, if elected, platforms, instead of taking a platform that TREMENDOUSLY REDUCES GOVERNMENT POWER and has appeal to the entire populace. You are so hot on the libers, just see if anyone within their ranks dare read and accept the basic rights granted to every person in the United States of America.
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