Freedom or Totalitarianism

Freedom or Totalitarianism
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Saturday, August 24, 2013

Liberty Underground: Garry Johnson- On Individual Freedom

Source:FreeState Now- Governor Gary Johnson: on individual liberty in America.
Source:FreeState Now

Gary Johnson: "The greatest lie ever told in America is that the battle for our liberty was won in 1776." To try to translate was Governor Johnson is saying here: liberty is hard and you got to want it bad, because there will always be people in America that don't believe in it to the point that they'll try to take it away from you. 


"Gary Johnson on Sean Hannity"

Source:Liberty Underground- FNC's Sean Hannity, interviewing Governor Gary Johnson, in 2011.

From Liberty Underground

The fight to preserve individual liberty shall always go on. As long as there are statists on the Far-Right and Far-Left in America trying to take our freedom away. Freedom of choice I believe is the best way to look at freedom and I mean individual freedom. 

Should people have the right to make their own decisions over their own personal and economic affairs or not. And if they have the right, should they also be held personally responsible for their own decisions for good and bad or not. My answer and Gary Johnson’s answers to both questions is of course yes.

The freedom for people to control their own lives and then be held personally responsible for their own decisions over their own lives for good and bad. Not the freedom to hurt innocent people intentionally or otherwise, but the freedom to chart their own course in life. And to have their basic constitutional rights responsibly enforces and enforced equally for everyone. 

The job of government is to protect the innocent from predators who would hurt them. Not to try to run their lives for them and try to protect them from themselves either from a personal or economic standpoint.

That is what Gary Johnson argues and has argued his entire political career at least as long as I’ve heard of him going back to the late 1990s when he was Governor of New Mexico. The ability for free people to make free choices and then be held accountable for the decisions that they make. 

And perhaps where I would disagree with Governor Johnson is that government has a role to educate people on potential choices that they might make. As well as regulate these activities to protect the innocent from predators. Not to run these activities or try to prohibit them. But make sure that they are as safe and as responsible as possible.

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