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Title: Dude, Where’s My Freedom? The government tightens the noose on guns, health, travel, and more.
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URL Source: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/dude-w ... ™s-my-freedom/?singlepage=true
Published: Jun 11, 2011
Author: Paul Hsieh
Post Date: 2011-06-13 02:48:47 by Mad Dog
Keywords: the feral gooberment, FERAL, GOOBERMENT
Views: 38849
Comments: 91
Benjamin Franklin once warned Americans that “they who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.” Yet in the seemingly unrelated areas of health care and physical security, our political leaders are embracing this folly with predictably bad results. In the realm of health care, the Obama administration is forging ahead to implement its “universal health care” plan, despite consistent popular opposition and numerous legal challenges. They claim they must restrict patients’ freedoms by forcing them to purchase insurance on government terms and restrict doctors’ freedoms by herding them into Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) in order to guarantee everyone the supposed “security” of guaranteed health care. Yet, as we’ve already seen in Massachusetts (which has a health plan similar to the national ObamaCare program), this results in patients having theoretical “coverage” — but less of an ability to get actual medical care. In the related realm of pharmaceuticals, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claims it must restrict patients’ freedom to purchase (and manufacturers’ freedom to sell) drugs in order to protect our safety. However, pharmaceutical industry experts fault onerous FDA regulations for contributing to the current dangerous shortage of many injectable drugs by artificially raising the costs of drug creation and production. Hence, many seriously ill patients are now unable to get the medications they need. Even worse, as Mark McCarty of Medical Device Daily recently described, FDA advisors have sought to deny terminally patients access to potentially life-extending treatments on the grounds that “the risk-benefit ratio was not up to par.” Similarly, medical device makers are now finding Europe a more hospitable environment for innovation than the U.S. due to FDA regulations. Rather than protecting Americans, the FDA is endangering them. In the realm of transportation security, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) is already a national joke for groping grandmothers and babies. Yet when tested with fake bombs and real guns, they’ve failed miserably. Indeed, it was the passengers who stopped the would-be bomber in Detroit of Northwest Airlines flight 253, not the TSA — a classic example of what blogger Glenn Reynolds calls “An Army of Davids.” Americans have surrendered their freedoms (and their dignity) to the TSA for a sham “security theater” rather than genuine security. Yet politicians like Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) want to extend such controls from air travel to train travel. Finally, Obama administration officials recently let slip that they are working on new gun control measures “under the radar.” Gun control is the classic example of foolishly exchanging an essential liberty for an illusion of security. The U.S. states that respect the honest citizen’s right to carry firearms in self-defense have consistently lower rates of violent crimes than states with strict gun control laws. These examples illustrate the problems that arise when government oversteps its proper bounds. The proper function of government is to protect individual rights, such as our rights to free speech, property, and contract. Only those who initiate physical force or fraud can violate our rights. A properly limited government thus protects our rights by protecting us from criminals who steal, murder, rape, and so on, as well as from foreign aggressors. But it should otherwise leave honest people alone to live peacefully. Whenever government exceeds those proper bounds, it violates honest citizens’ rights, rather than protecting them. Rather than the guilty, the innocent thus bear the costs. Innocent patients in Massachusetts suffer by having to wait nearly twice as long for primary care appointments than patients in the other 49 states. Innocent patients around the country suffer from FDA barriers restricting their access to life-saving drugs and medical devices. TSA gropings punish innocent travelers, not the bad guys. Gun control punishes honest gun owners while rewarding violent criminals by delivering to them a populace of disarmed victims. Fortunately, we can rectify these injustices by insisting that the government adhere to its legitimate function of protecting individual rights. In health care, a proper government would allow patients, doctors, and insurers to enter into insurance contracts according to their own best judgment. The government’s job would be to enforce those contracts against any attempts by patients, providers, or insurers to cheat. It should not punish insurance companies for selling products that customers want, as recently occurred in Massachusetts. Note that in such a free market, the freedom to contract protects insurability (including for patients with pre-existing conditions), rather than destroying it. With pharmaceuticals, the government should protect us against fraudulent claims. But otherwise drugmakers should be left free to decide what drugs to manufacture. Likewise, doctors and patients should decide what medications they should prescribe/take. The resultant free market would make safe, effective drugs much more affordable and available to all. With respect to terrorism, the government should adopt a proactive foreign policy that actually tackles the threat of Islamic totalitarianism, rather than harassing law-abiding travelers. With respect to violent crime, the government should go after actual criminals rather than penalizing law-abiding gun owners. All forms of “gun control,” “travel control,” or “health control” are just examples of a broader “freedom control.” And they are all doomed to fail because at root they are just different ways of government violating our individual rights rather than protecting them. In Memorial Day and D-Day commemorations around the country, America recently honored the many brave men and women who fought abroad for our liberty. Let us not ignobly surrender that hard-won liberty for politicians’ sham promises of “security” here at home. Otherwise, we may all wake up one day soon wondering, “Dude, where’s my freedom?”
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#52. To: Ferret Mike (#48)
LOL! You foul little gibbering libTURD cunt, I go by what people DO not what they say. You are OBVIOUSLY a person with serious mental and moral issues. I have no idea what the F you are actually going to do. Do I? Which is how you TRY to put me into a place of fear. You don't much like it when I turn it back around at YOU do you cunt? You see bitch, I'm not laughing. I'm scared of only one thing, and I've already told you what that is. It sure ain't YOU. BUT if you ever dared hurt my animals, I'm pretty sure I'd lose it on you. I'm not scared bitch, I'm RIGHT here. What I find offensive is a libTURD hypocrite cunt like you feeling that it's acceptable to threaten folks over the web. It's not. It's 100% cunt behavior. Which figures in your case.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Well, if I ever picked on an animal to get at someone, I would deserve it. ;-D It is on my list of revoltingly unacceptable behaviors. I am a dog lover anyway. I grew up with dogs. I owned a German Shepard and a schnauzer. The latter was a show quality dog. I've also had three or four mutts. Dogs and humans have a special bond, and I don't violate it.
I didn't, and in turn, you haven't. ;-D Your cognitive dissonance is your problem, not mine.
Because you posted your name online. Nah LIAR that's what we call a "control" question, I already knew that one. What has me "confused" is why you won't answer my other THREE questions bitch? "Want to tell us ALL again why you seem to think that the very first time you have ever mentioned my dogs, and you say that they look nice, and you "can see why I wouldn't want anything to happen to them" isn't an implied threat cunt? Want to tell us ALL again where you have EVER "seen" my dogs cunt? Want to tell us ALL again why you want to ask me about Caswell cunt?" Oh, I KNOW the answer to those questions also bitch. tick Tick tIck tiCk ticK TIck tICk tiCK TICk tICK Tick TICK
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Likewise, I'm sure.
I see your lips moving but I don't hear a word that you're saying creep.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
I see your lips moving but I don't hear a word that you're saying creep. . .
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
"Want to tell us ALL again where you have EVER "seen" my dogs cunt?" I haven't. Like I said, I understand why you hqave a strong bond with them you mention many times in your posts on eLPee. You obviously don't do well with human contact, and everyone needs companionship. Many people who deal poorly with humans take better to dogs or other animals. ;- D
The difference is that I haven't threatened YOU or your DOGS bitch. EVER. Want to answer the other THREE questions bitch?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
One thing this shows beyond contention is you can dish it out, but you can't take it. All I need to do is give you the tools and you prove this all by your lonesome self. And face it Steve, you have been asking for some quid pro quo. ;-D
And I would never threaten yours. Your inability to deal with that is your problem, not mine.
So bitch, how do you know that they are "nice dogs"? I've never published their pictures bitch. Their pictures are only ONE place bitch. So, bitch ... Want to tell me where you've ever seen my dogs or pictures of them bitch? Want to tell me where you came up with CASWELL bitch? I don't do well with YOU foul gibbering libTURD cunts, (actually I do fine, they don't do fine with me), nonetheless I do just fine with actual HUMANS. Which certainly leaves YOU out.
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
You call threatening me and my dogs a "quid pro quo"? No you little libTURD pissaant. I won't let you threaten me, or my dogs, or anybody else, over the web without slamming your worthless libTURD ass into the mat over and over about it. You little libTURD monkey boys just aren't trainable outside of Pavlovian techniques. 2" x 4" meet libTURD ASS!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
That is the part I cannot share. But it's nothing you need fret about. Nobody I know wants to harm you. As for where I came up with the information, I will be happy to give the source to you. Ask with some politesse and it's your's. I'll even E mail it if you don't want it put in open forum.
I've never published their pictures bitch. Their pictures are only ONE place bitch. So, bitch ... Want to tell me where you've ever seen my dogs or pictures of them bitch? Want to tell me where you came up with CASWELL bitch?" libTURD bitch; That is the part I cannot share. But it's nothing you need fret about. Nobody I know wants to harm you. As for where I came up with the information, I will be happy to give the source to you. Ask with some politesse and it's your's. I'll even E mail it if you don't want it put in open foruM" ONE place bitch. And bitch THIS is as "polite" as I'll EVER be to you. ((((((((((((((((((((((((crickets))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
I figured as much. This does not go contrary to my expectations. You are a big boy, if you decide you want some courtesy, you are going to have to be courteous to get what you want. It's just the way it is.
LOL! You absurd puffed up Poppin Jay! YOU have absolutely NOTHING that I want fool. Other than you foul gibbering libTURD FOOLS/TOOLS/WHORES/useful idiots disappearing completely, in all ways from AMERICA'S life and history. (LOL! YEAH LIKE THAT'S EVER going to happen. /NOT LOL!) I'm a federalist, so if you want to shit in your own nest, have at it! BUT leave the rest of US Americans in the other 49 several states alone. So ... (2" x 4" time), IF you gibbering libTURD hypocrite assholes just wanted to shit in your own nest and fuck up just the state that you live in I wouldn't care at all. BUT, you assholes "think" that you have the right to FORCE ALL OF US OTHER AMERICANS TO LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR STATE'S WAYS and WISHES! (Afterall libTURDISM IS the philosophy of the stoopid.) Well asshole, in AMERICA, you don't have that "right", and the time of America's feral gooberments running America THAT way uncontested is OVER. Sabe chongo?
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
BRAVO thread! Keep it up as you have time.
Kewl. So, why are you bringing it up again then? Oh and you are some kind of dilletante asshole in your own right. And you probably thought I did not catch the gist of your insult, bird brain. ;-D You are a legend in your own mind, and you are a fool if you underestimate me.
Thanks buck.
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It's called "replying" fuckwad. Want to try whatever the fuck you were gibbering about again but in standard English this time fuckwad? LOL! you gibbering MORON, I just spent time telling you fuckwad that I NEVER "underestimate" anybody and that's why I'm calling you out on your pussy implied threats to me and my dogs up thread. And you foul little cunt, I know exactly where and how you got what you think is information. It ALL goes double for that little cunt also. "He" only thinks he's too slick. LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
Pretty much the reason he slithered over here from LP after I put him in his place. I'll have to admit, that place has a little more class after the departure of rabid psycho puppy.
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe Rabid psycho puppy has always had a problem dealing with reality.
“America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”---Claire Wolfe Take your own advice. Your posts are 85 % hate and bait, and has very little information. In fact, that is what discredits you the best and makes your words moot. Your insults come as such a flow people's eye scan over them not bothering to read them. You have fished for king crab so long, that is what you have become, a crab. Have a good day, Crusty Clown. ;-D
Yep, he's a real human tumor, that one. Some people make one wonder what village is missing it's idiot. With Steve one hopes he's moved around like Hannabal Lector with a mask, and 'I love myself jacket' and a hand caret.
Reality and him aren't friends. And he's as influential in forum poshing his poison as Freddie Phelps is at making his point at the funeral of servicemen who died for their country. He doesn't realize that when one makes oneself a caricature as he has, nobody trusts his opinion or judgment. If all conservatives were like him with the same ideological Torette syndrome, they would be far less effective at what they do in government
In fact, that is what discredits you the best and makes yiur words moot. Your insults come as such a flow people's eye scan over them not bothering to read them. You've captured him perfectly!
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
I cleared my bozo a few weeks ago and kept him and Boris Y on it. He's a robo poster...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I have mad puppy on my bozo filter. Maybe I'll take him off on a slow day to read his frothing, foul-mouthed replies just for laughs.
Tie! But your reply beat mine.
The issue with his Chowness is that if you've read one post you've read them all.
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" Wow...never seen that before...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" Until recently he was the only poster on my bozo list. There doesn't seem to be any reason to take him off the list.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
Read one of his posts, you've read them all.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
I swear I didn't read your post before posting my response to Fred.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
He's deluding himself if he thinks differently. A good example of how little impact he has is his return to eLPee that he did a nasty opus from when he realized Sally didn't even bother to turn his account off. He laid in a long abusive post trying to get her to finally turn his account off. Not only is that abusive and insult filled post damning the normally hypersensitive to criticism Goldi, I bet that if he went over he could still sign on. That post is still there, and it was barely noted as being there by anyone. That is quite the ultimate self minimizing; to not be able to insult her into an angry frenzy.
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America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" He must be in bozo filters from coast to coast.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
LOL! I see your lips moving fuckwad, but I don't hear a word that you are saying. You go play with the herd now and have a nice little libTURD circle jerk about the mean/crazy/BAD 'ol DOG you powerless gibbering fuckwad insect. The funny thing is that I hear wet chickens raising holy hell whenever your herd does that. What the fuck are you libTURDS doing to those poor critters? "Peter tweeting"? ? LOL!
Spoiled, stupid and ignorant, brain dead phuckwads, libTURD fools, tools, and idiots, are the real sickness; the messiah "king" obammy and his regime are only the symptoms.
#53. To: Mad Dog (#52)
"BUT if you ever dared hurt my animals, I'm pretty sure I'd lose it on you."
#54. To: Mad Dog (#52)
"Which is how you TRY to put me into a place of fear. You don't much like it when I turn it back around at YOU do you cunt?"
#55. To: Ferret Mike (#51)
"Want to tell us ALL again why you seem to think that my name is "Steve" bitch?"
#56. To: Mad Dog (#52)
"I'm not scared bitch, I'm RIGHT here."
#57. To: Ferret Mike (#53)
#58. To: Ferret Mike (#54)
#59. To: Mad Dog (#55)
(Edited)
Want to tell us ALL again where you have EVER "seen" my dogs cunt?
#60. To: Ferret Mike (#56)
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#61. To: Mad Dog (#58)
#62. To: Mad Dog (#60)
"The difference is that I haven't threatened YOU or your DOGS bitch."
#63. To: Ferret Mike (#59)
Actually bitch, you said, "Nice dogs. I see why they mean so much to you."
#64. To: Ferret Mike (#61)
#65. To: Mad Dog (#63)
"So bitch, how do you know that they are "nice dogs"?"
#66. To: Ferret Mike (#65)
M dog; "So bitch, how do you know that they are "nice dogs"?
#67. To: Mad Dog (#66)
"And bitch THIS is as "polite" as I'll EVER be to you."
#68. To: Ferret Mike (#67)
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#69. To: Ferret Mike (#67)
#70. To: Mad Dog (#68)
"YOU have absolutely NOTHING that I want fool."
#71. To: buckeroo (#69)
(Edited)
#72. To: All (#71)
(Edited)
#73. To: Ferret Mike (#70)
#74. To: Ferret Mike (#61)
One thing this shows beyond contention is you can dish it out, but you can't take it.
#75. To: Ferret Mike (#62)
Your inability to deal with that is your problem, not mine.
#76. To: Mad Dog (#73)
(Edited)
"Want to try whatever the fuck you were gibbering about again but in standard English this time fuckwad?"
#77. To: Bill D Berger (#74)
"I'll have to admit, that place has a little more class after the departure of rabid psycho puppy."
#78. To: Bill D Berger (#75)
"Rabid psycho puppy has always had a problem dealing with reality."
#79. To: Ferret Mike (#76)
Your posts are 85 % hate and bait, and has very little information.
#80. To: lucysmom (#79)
(Edited)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#81. To: lucysmom (#79)
#82. To: war (#80)
#83. To: Fred Mertz (#81)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#84. To: Fred Mertz (#82)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#85. To: war (#80)
I cleared my bozo a few weeks ago and kept him and Boris Y on it.
#86. To: Fred Mertz (#81)
Maybe I'll take him off on a slow day to read his frothing, foul-mouthed replies just for laughs.
#87. To: war (#83)
The issue with his Chowness is that if you've read one post you've read them all.
#88. To: lucysmom (#79)
#89. To: lucysmom (#87)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#90. To: Ferret Mike (#88)
Not only is that abusive and insult filled post damning the normally hypersensitive to criticism Goldi, I bet that if he went over he could still sign on. That post is still there, and it was barely noted as being there by anyone.
#91. To: Ferret Mike and the rest of libTURD herd dwelling cunts (#76)
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