On the Issues - Ethics/Civil Rights

Greetings again! This blog series promises to be quite lenghty so please bear with me. I will create a seperate entry for each of the issues we will cover. The issues are The Economy, Energy Policy, National Security/Immigration, Foreign policy/Iraq, Healthcare, Education, Ethics/Civil Rights.The following information in bold is take directly from the candidates web pages. I have elected not to name the candidates until a seperate blog to be presented after all of the others, not that the enlightened among us won't be able to figure it out. All that said lets begin with the issues, Ethics/Civil Rights:

Candidate 1: Allowing governments, at any level, to confiscate property without a compelling justification represents a serious attack on fundamental liberty. Government's most basic duty is to protect individual rights, including that of private property ownership, not to diminish them.n blood, deserve our support both during their time of duty and thereafter.

Fundamental right to Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Happyness (AKA property). Do you know why they struck out property there? They didn't want the slave owners to claim a fundamental right to their "property" (slaves). Darn hateful folks huh?

The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal. Government should make no law that discriminates based on race, religion, sexuality or any other personal characteristic. Government laws should respect each person as an individual and treat them equally as such.

ALL men are CREATED equal emphasis needed, we are indeed created equal it's what we choose to do with that, that makes all the difference in the world. Government laws should be completely blind to all the prejudices that we hold be they based upon personal morality, religion, tradition or practice.

Regardless of whether one supports or opposes same sex marriage, the decision to recognize such unions ought to be made by each state rather than imposed as a one-size-fits-all mandate by the federal government. Any federal laws that prevent states from determining their own standards for marriage should be repealed; the federal government should not define marriage, whether by statute or constitutional amendment.

The federal gov't was never given power over marriage, this is Gods realm and His union. That being said you don't have to like it, you don't have to agree with it and you don't have to live it...but they have the right to if that is what their morality compels them to do and you have no right to tell them otherwise.

Candidate 2: There is no more fundamental American right than the right to vote. Before the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, barriers such as literacy tests, poll taxes and property requirements disenfranchised many Americans, especially minorities. More than 40 years later, there are still numerous obstacles to ensuring that every citizen has the ability to vote.

The right to vote is so fundamental to BO because its the uneducated, poor masses who hold the majority in America votership and they are the ones who will get him elected. My thoughts? Simple make the ballot write-in only! Only legible and correctly spelled names are acceptable FIRST AND LAST. That'll eliminate a surprising number of idiots! Not every citizen has the ability to vote, many of them have not excercised their brain muscle enough to deserve it.

Throughout his political career, Barack Obama has been a leader in fighting for open and honest government. As a U.S. Senator, he has spearheaded the effort to clean up Washington in the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal. In a politically charged election year, Obama acknowledged that corruption was a problem that plagued both political parties. He subsequently enlisted the help of Republican allies to limit lobbyist influence, shine sunlight into the earmarks process and promote open government.

Isn't he so Speshal?


In June of 2006, Senator Obama delivered what was called the most important speech on religion and politics in 40 years. Speaking before an evangelical audience, Senator Obama candidly discussed his own religious conversion and doubts, and the need for a deeper, more substantive discussion about the role of faith in American life.

What was called the most important speech on religion and politics in 40 years? Ok i'm not a kook but this is where those people who claim BO as Antichrist start to make sense. Who the heck do you think started that claimof the most important speech on religion other than his own campaign. And if the most important religious speech is all about his own conversion and doubts....well that ought to give any reasonable person pause!

Candidate 3: John McCain believes that a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" must remain ever faithful to that noble charge. America needs leadership devoted to the public interest, not the special interest, and a government that fulfills its duties with unfailing integrity, accountability, and common sense. Those who serve in positions of public trust have a patriotic duty to serve the national interest with integrity and accountability, to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the people we are privileged to serve.

John McCain unwittingly endorses Bob Barr (candidate 1) here. Of the people, by the people and for the people. Let me try one more here:

...whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the RIGHT of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer...than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS PURSUING INVARIABLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DEPOTISM IS IS THEIR RIGHT IT IS THEIR DUTY TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT AND TO PROVIDE NEW GUARDS FOR THEIR FUTURE SECURITY...

John McCain believes that one of the greatest threats to our liberty and the Constitutional framework that safeguards our freedoms are willful judges who usurp the role of the people and their representatives and legislate from the bench. As President, John McCain will nominate judges who understand that their role is to faithfully apply the law as written, not impose their opinions through judicial fiat.

Indeed and If Only...

During more than five years as a POW in Vietnam, John McCain experienced the worst assaults on human dignity imaginable. Yet each day he also saw in his fellow prisoners the power of human compassion and the will to prevail against unimaginable evil. It is this experience, and a life dedicated to public service, that has imbued in John McCain a fundamental commitment to the protection of human dignity that will shape his presidency.


Take from that, that which you will.

From here the choice is very readily yours. I will be writing more blogs in the future about more issues. My choice for president is Bob Barr the Libertarian candidate for President of the United States of America. I realize he doesn't have a chance but I must vote my conscience as must you. I urge you to read and to learn and to study and to vote informed and knowledgable. I hope this series has been helpful to you and I look forward tohearing from more of you who agree/disagree with me. Until next time!