Comments on: Why I am No Longer a Republican (and never was a Democrat)

By: cup beans

cup beans — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:10:20 +0000

First I am glad that it ended O.K for your nephew, it just made me think about all the people that go to jail simply for lack of money to pay to a good defense attorney.

As for the wish for a minimal government, the people’s fear makes them run to the leaders asking them to take care of them, ground them if needed just be a strong “parent” that can make all the bad things go away.

It is like all the adult, independent and individual beings that wanted freedom to act prefer to be protected against the storm of life more then the ability to act on their own. Sort of psychological regression.

By: cparker

cparker — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:12:45 +0000

I ran accross this by accident. Glad I did. Good luck to you. I’m still searching myself.

By: K Brown

K Brown — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:54:14 +0000

The only thing that tyrany needs to survive is for good men to do nothing.

By: Erik Santos

Erik Santos — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:31:55 +0000

My best friend is currently being prosecuted by the state for trafficking narcotics. These drugs however, are his prescribed medicines that he takes for pain relief from back-surgery a couple years ago. Unfortunately, since he was carrying all of his different prescribed pills in ONE bottle . . . it is a crime and he too is facing 8 years in prison. He cannot afford a proper defense and all we can do now is pray that the courts do the right thing.

By: Tully Allen

Tully Allen — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:54:58 +0000

You must be under the impression that you live in a free country. Sorry to be the one to tell you, but you don’t. All the blogs in the world are not going to change the situation. Too much money to be made suppressing our right to do what we want with our own bodies. Unless we have a real revolution, nothing will change.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:51:30 +0000

Here’s a hint, don’t be a Republican, don’t be a Democrat, don’t be a Liberterian. Be a swing voter, vote for whom ever offers the best solutions for society at the time, vote out of office anybody who is doing a bad job, regardless of party affiliations. Consider independents. Government, it is not a game, it is not a sporting event, do not get caught up in barracking for a political party. When you do support a particular candidate, and when you do vote, consider the whole of your society and just not your own needs. Be a citizen with a conscious and force your politicians to be the same.

By: Joe Canadian

Joe Canadian — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:08:04 +0000

RON PAUL!

By: CA Jake

CA Jake — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:18:41 +0000

Christ to the people all about, “You didn’t care until it happened to you.” So, when you people get aids or cancer, become paralyzed, get some life threatening disease, your kids kidnapped, your shit stolen or become homeless or starving . . . I hope you were all the same people that gave money for cancer, aids, paralysis and disease research. I hope you were on search parties, I hope you helped people out whose houses were destroyed by natural disastors, and I hope you fed the people starving on the streets. I bet that most of you haven’t. How in the world are we supposed to be perfect and care about everything in this world that hasn’t happened to us, especially the things we are unaware of? The mutilations in other countries . . . what have you done to prevent it? I’m sure you would do something if it happened to you, though. Right?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:58:25 +0000

Thank you for sharing. Republicans and Democrats are just two sides of the same coin. We need more stories like this to wake the people up. I have always considered myself ‘liberal’ because I oppose the drug, support civil liberties and abortion rights, am disgusted at the theocracy that so many Republicans are striving for, etc. Then again, I guess I could side with the Republicans because I believe that less government is ALWAYS better government…and that is not a ‘reductio ad absurdum.’ If the brainwashed masses were smart enough to see that their entire realities were being controlled by the powers behind the powers we see on TV, there just MIGHT be hope that our intellectual and spiritual evolutions would progress to a point where we could live as nature intended, without ANY kind of government control that each individual did not explicitly agree to.

By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:59:50 +0000

That should be “Instant RunOFF Voting” above.

Also two links related to the movie, and an interview with Ralph Nader:

http://www.anunreasonableman.com/
http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n9/ralph_nader_an_unreasonable_man