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Originally Posted by RcktS4
But Rob, there are other things involved that some of us may consider more important. You won't catch me defending Corzine, but I would jsut like to point out that just because someone has libertarian views, that does not mean that they cannot also vote against a republican candidate. There were a lot of other questions on the table, not least of which were education and research.
Personally i am much more concerned with these things than whether I can smoke in public, or whether it is difficult to own a firearm. I am not saying these are not important issues, but they are not the most important to me. It's good that there are people like you who are so intent on these areas, but that doesn't mean that they are (or even should be) the focus for everyone.
My main concern, to be honest, is education and research. Stem cell research alone (which Forreseter was unsettlingly vague about for most of the election) would have decided this for me.
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Raney, you can consider whatever you want to be important. Just don't force me to pay for it, or stick it up my ass.
It is never one man's business to put his hands in another man's pocket, nor deny him his liberties or tell him what to do. And that's exactly the kind of attitude that's run amok here in New Jersey. There's a reason why we're the laughing stock of the nation, and the level of corruption is the highest in the country. Because we just don't have a concern to protect our neighbor's rights when there's something that we can get.
And, sadly, in this state, voters have been conditioned to what they can get. What was it that Kennedy said? "Ask not what your Country can do for you... ask what you can do for your Country". Funny how times change.
The voters of the state rationalize what they want because it's simply expedient for them, and don't have a mind to whom it affects or what impact it has on our liberties and how it emboldens legislators to continue their power grubbing ways.
The problem that many people don't fathom is that when they vote, they're hiring a thug called a "legislator" to mug their fellow citizen, and they do it in the most cowardly fashion, by hiding behind a curtain and pushing a button. At least the street punks steal your money in person. When certain ethnic groups engage in this kind of behavior, it's labeled 'racketeering', the term of art in the vernacular is 'protection money'.
As innocuous as "research and education" sounds, if we start chiseling away at everyone's liberties because we start picking and chosing what we personally find desireable, it's a direct violation of my soverign rights, and in contravention of that which our founders intended, and what is supposed to make America different than the rest of the world.
What good is "freedom" if we increment it away through rationalizations, taxes and restrictions?
All I can say is that I hope you or your lifestyle don't get caught in the crosshairs of what some legislator decides is 'important'.