larry wrote:
People will never mature in their actions if they are not permitted to do so. And there will always be some that do not have the capability to grow in wisdom. The majority should not be incarcerated by the few who do not recognize the limits of a free people.
The problem is that we are looking at all people as evil or lawbreakers. I we look to them as morally astute, we would raise the tone of advisory laws. If speed limits were advisory, it would mean we trust our citizens to use their wisdom and not drive at speeds beyond their capacity. The speed limit then would then not be a line of punishment for judgement, but a guideline for sensible action. The only punishable event would be if an accident or catastrophe were to occur. The blame then would be on the perpetrate. if it could be shown that they were at fault. In the case of speeding, it is not the speed that is the danger, it is the capability of the driver and machine. If a person chooses to exceed the posted limit, he is a criminal for nothing more that utilizing the conditions to his best advantage. It is not a crime, it is a limit to Liberty.
Using laws to restrict Liberty is the problem, innocent people are punished for arbitrary control. The punishment should be attached to the damage incurred, if no damage, no crime, no punishment. Just as there is no crime in owning a gun, the crime comes in the use of it in felonious ways. It does not make sense to arbitrarily assign punishment when no event has occurred in using things to your advantage, as long as they do not infringe on the liberty of any one else.
To expect anyone to rise to the level of inward and sensible compliance with safe and prudent behavior without giving them the chance to do so, means we set up an arbitrary barrier to morality that instead of increasing compliance, forces infringement.
For instance, the liquor laws written before to make drinking unlawful did not work, because liquor was not the problem, Sensible utilization was. When reasonable thinking prevailed, liquor was released from evil, but the act of abuse was put into its proper perspective by giving advisory limits to its use. At this time, it is the abuse of common sense that is corralled, and the consequences imposed. However, we do not ban the use of the vehicle when the sense is fringed, we put the price of infraction on the user. as it should be, we do not impose restrictions on all users. To do so is to arbitrarily censor liberty for good behavior.
We depend on each user to know and control things to their own limitations. Those that do, are free, those that don't are subject to restriction as they deserve.
Freedom can be nibbled away by arbitrary restrictions to the point where none are free.
People will never mature in their actions if they ... (
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"Freedom can be nibbled away by arbitrary restrictions to the point where none are free."
Like now.
Ranger7374
Loc: Arizona, 40 miles from the border in the DMZ
ERIC HOLDER IS STEPPING DOWN AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES Our prayers are being Answered!
Obama is not running for office anymore!
Raylan Wolfe wrote:
Obama is not running for office anymore!
But he will be the next to resign.
Nuclearian
Loc: I live in a Fascist, Liberal State
Only to N**i's, and c*******ts and people who want to be s***es to their tyrannical government. I***ts like you.
Myself? I prefer the freedom to keep them from taking over.
Nuclearian
Loc: I live in a Fascist, Liberal State
Them damned N**i's and c*******ts. F--k them all. Can hardly wait until those people they support put them into extermination camps, and someone asks them what they think then.
America wins World War III after 2016
By Charles Ortel - - Thursday, September 25, 2014
In another sharp sell-off, capital markets process what too many refuse to accept America can only lead the world forward, tame threats posed by some rising nations and vanquish radical Islamists, starting soonest with the p**********l inauguration in January 2017.
Until then, we will stew in a dangerous, bipartisan muddle of our own making, absorbing body blows while struggling to remain united as a force for good.
Peering through the fog of war
For too long, it has proven tough to discern where lies stop and t***h begins in evaluating the course of Americas progress as a nation.
Forget the unfiltered propaganda and victory talk now emanating into mainstream media channels from the appeasement wing of the Democrat Party.
With winter fast approaching, Barack Obama already stands exposed as a naked emperor, who cannot restore his tattered credibility. Our leader and his inept team fail to identify Americas true enemies or rally this countrys steadfast friends. As a result, America is neither respected, nor feared, nor trusted.
Furthermore, America, Europe, Japan, and the extended Western alliance share common problems: We consume too much imported energy, our populations are skewed to the senior cohort and grow too slowly, we have piled up too much external debt, and we do not spend enough money effectively on our military forces.
If alliance leaders ever actually studied thought-leaders such as Machiavelli, they surely have forgotten these words: All armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Ignorance and arrogance are a combustible cocktail yet it is these qualities that already modify President Obamas actions, particularly across the Middle East and in relations with such rising superpowers such as China and Russia, not to mention allies such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Israel.
How can America and the West eventually recover to win?
Resetting the reset with Russia
Sentient humans in consequential nations understand that Mr. Obama and his team squandered realistic hope of working constructively with Russia this will be a job for the next American administration.
Seizing Crimea is certainly behavior that America and alliance partners should challenge that said, Vladimir Putin sees the profound danger inherent in Europes gravely flawed Union one that does not avail itself of combination benefits or wean coddled populations from an unchecked propensity to borrow and waste sums that will prove enormously difficult ever to repay.
Pushing Russia away, into billions of rising arms inside China, India and other eastern nations, seems a course that is precisely opposite to American and European strategic interests.
As happened in the last World War, Russia must be converted from enemy to ally.
Rejecting our fear of fighting against jihad
Americans are starting to understand that we must win a contest against an inherently flawed, yet addictive strand of thinking that an all powerful God might task followers of one religion to k**l others and take their worldly possessions.
Our common enemy is not simply one charismatic leader, several groups of male and female followers, or even one or more nation-states. Our enemy is the ideology that animates radical Islamist terror networks.
Rather than confronting brutal reality, politicians in both parties today sell us, yet again, on waging a kind of zipless war against terrorism where close reading of our coalitions muddled objectives lead you to conclude: No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone.
This approach is unadulterated rubbish. America and the West need to provoke, enable and ensure a lasting Reformation of Islam, one that will prohibit k*****g those who choose to reject any religion.
Winning the peace
After 2016, when the Western alliance eventually achieves decisive military victories wherever these are needed, it will then take decades to cement a lasting peace, as happened for a time, following victory in World War II.
After 1945, America flourished rebuilding Western Europe and Japan upon pre-existing foundations. This will not happen in North Africa and the Middle East, absent energy. Most of these nations do not have an industrial or technological base.
What they do have is sizeable populations skewed to the youth segment that are already larger and growing much faster than similar segments in America, Europe and Japan.
These young people (and our own) face imminent futures where machines, relentlessly growing in power and ceaselessly dropping in cost, will replace human labor even as the human population increases.
Politicians must stop inciting concern over ill-defined problems such as c*****e c****e and address dangers that actually threaten the civilized world, here and now.
Without meaningful and productive work, frustrated and idle people will dedicate themselves to unrelenting war.
Ranger7374 wrote:
ERIC HOLDER IS STEPPING DOWN AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES Our prayers are being Answered!
Who said there is no justice.. He should not only step down, but step out.
Ranger7374
Loc: Arizona, 40 miles from the border in the DMZ
larry wrote:
Who said there is no justice.. He should not only step down, but step out.
He's not stepping down or stepping out, He's falling down. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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