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Summary
Liberals vociferously advocate "tolerance." Yet they devise unconstitutional, ineffective schemes to achieve it. Under their guise of tolerance, such schemes enslave and degrade the masses. The U. S. Constitution, with its Bill of Rights, is the epitome of true, effective, workable tolerance. Liberals raise a hue and cry about it; the Constitution protects it.
Many in secular "freethought" circles encourage Christians to read their Bible, claiming it would make them atheists. Perhaps if secularists read the Constitution, they would become Americans!
Indeed, "Absolute power tends to absolutely corrupt." 9 Thomas Jefferson warned, "Bind men [the government] down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." 10 If government wished to implement programs that in practice would harm its people, would it present those programs as harmful or as beneficial? Would it not attempt to convince its victims such programs are for their own good? On face value, who opposes the professed benefits of what government agencies and programs claim to provide? Who denies that people need to eat despite illness or other calamities? Who opposes children or elders or blind persons or paralyzed persons or women or deaf persons or persons whose income is less than $10,000 per year? Does opposition to governmental social programs, ostensibly devised to benefit a particular group, actually evince disregard for, or even opposition to, that group?
Unfortunately, any deep investigation will uncover that not only do government programs tend to create and fuel social ills, they also hinder private sector solutions. The United States Government wields more control over the lives, businesses, and property of Americans than ever. Meanwhile the nation’s social ills skyrocket.
Liberals often ask questions such as, "How can we be protected from big business without government regulations?" Friends, government is the big business citizens need protection against!
Such is The Effect of allowing big government decades of liberty to shanghai constitutionalists from office. 11 Occasionally, constituents elect honest politicians. That rare breed needs all the support and encouragement constituents can muster to "bind the government down from mischief."
Though one shanghaied politician is out of office, he is not out of commission. He is running as an Independent this year against Bob Barr for Congress. Georgians owe it to themselves and their country to support and vote for Swindall's rightful return to office.
Chapter Four Notes:
1 Police Against the
2 This hypothetical example is inaccurate considering drug use was legal in 1787. The case is presented to contrast the judicial aspect.
3 Drug Policy Foundation, 4455 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite B-500, Washington, DC 20008-2328, (202) 537-5005, Fax:(202) 537-3007, email:dpf@dpf.org, web: http://www.dpf.org.
4 Vultures In Eagle’s Clothing, Lynne Meredith (1994), pp. 104, 106
5 Dr. Horn is president of the National Fatherhood Institute, an adjunct
faculty member at
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7 Libertarianism in One Lesson, Bergland (1997) pg. 57 (Available through the Advocates for Self-Government, 7/386-8372, 1202 N. Tennessee St., Suite 202, Cartersville, GA 30120, 800-932-1776, Fax:770-386-8373, e-mail:advocates@self-gov.org, http://www.self-gov.org
8 Dr. William A. Van Horn 770-953-3377,
9 Lord Acton, source: Discovering Self-Government, A Bible-Based Study Guide, Swearingen 1986, pg. 15
10 Dear Preacher, Please Quit (1987), Roy L. Branson, Jr. Th.D., D.R.E.,
Landmark Publications,
11 Visit: http://www.post-gazette.com/win to review Win At All Costs, a series presented by The Pittsburgh Post Gazette exposing the federal prosecutor tactics when targeting foe.
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