US Supreme Court Delivers a pro-free speech and business decision

On Monday in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, the US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that government has no authority to "protect minors" from video games that are deamed harmful to psychological health. Antonin Scalia worte the opinion of the court and was joined by all but justices Breyer and Thomas who dissented. California's regime claimed it was protecting parents rights. They were playing favorites by picking the parents who oppose video games over the parents who view video games as mere entertainment. Another issue is the morality of using force to solicit video game suppliers into refusing to sell certain violent video games to young people. Breyer's dissent has no real deal. Thomas dissented because he believed that our founding fathers approved of the right of parents to have absolute control of their children. Slavery was also legal in the southern states in the 1790's up to 1865 when the 13th amendment was ratified abolishing slavery. The 14th amendment established equal protection of the law and applied due process and other rights and freedoms to the states. The only constitutional distinction of age and gender would be voting, members of congress. The constitution is the highest law of the land and supercedes any law inconsistent with it. The 14th amendment means that all status offenses are unconstitutional and that the constitution is based on moral principles when dealing with rights rather than pragmatic approaches. Hopefully in future cases challenging status offenses or any law that treats youth like second class citizens this case can be of great help and from the looks of it I feel that status offenses could be struck down by no later than a few years from now if somebody acts soon. Wal-Mart v. Dukes was another case the court decided on last Monday and ruled unanimously that Wal-Mart is free to do their business, rejecting claims of discrimination of female employees. The US Constitution's commerce clause is only meant to prevent states from treating out-of-state goods more harshly than in-state goods and enables congress to enforce that policy, that's it. Commerce clause also gave congress the power to settle disputes between states and Indian tribes and set a trade policy with foreign nations such as tariffs. Government at all levels has turned from being a servant with limited powers to a fearful master with unlimited powers. I also want to tell you that house rejected a proposal to allow president Barack Obama to continue US action in Libya by a 295-123 vote with suprisingly a majority of Republicans voting AGAINST the Libya resolution. If this keeps up, government could once again become the fettered servant with limited powers within a whopping two years should Obama be defeated that is. Ron Paul is the strongest candidate against Obama, even going ahead in a recent poll. For Ron Paul's running mate, I propose that former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson be Paul's running mate. Johnson is also a libertarian who opposes interventionalist foreign policy(wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and potentially Libya for examples), the Fed, War on drugs, centralized economy and high taxes, and assaults on civil liberties like the PATRIOT Act and hates socialized healthcare known as Obamacare. I hope to see the Paul & Johnson ticket next year and hopefully defeat Obama on Tuesday November 6th of next year which happens to be election night, where real libertarian change will come to America!

If I were Running For President

Forgive me for not posting a single blog in 19 days. I watched the presidential debates for Republicans last night on CNN and I have to say each candidate says they are going to have Obamacare repealed, free markets respected, and the constitution respected. I trust Ron Paul the most because he actually KEEPS his words and does the WALK when it comes to policy meaning he means what he says and is honest. Mitt Romney as governor of Massachusetts has a liberal record and the most notable is Romneycare, a state level predecessor to Obamacare, a blueprint that the Obama administration has to thank. Romneycare includes a mandate to purchase health care insurance and also restricts patient choice, things common in socialized medicine. Romney was also in favor of the bailouts and TARP before he flip flopped on that issue and others. Mitt Romney is a dishonest Richard Nixon Republican who has flip flopped on issues such as illegal immigration, abortion and gun control. Romney’s position on gun control as governor was 'We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts; I support them; I won't chip away at them; I believe they protect us and provide for our safety.' He also supports the “assault” weapons ban and the 5-day waiting period and the Brady Bill. He did win the debate but Michelle Bachman won the debate as an underdog and she is fantastic. She was the first person in congress to introduce a bill to repeal Obamacare before it was even signed into law by President Obama.

          Anyway, if I were running for president, I would have a simple, common sense and understandable policy: Government is a necessary evil and a servant of the people. The holy role of government is to protect rights to life, liberty and property, enforce legit contracts, protect the nation from foreign invaders and threats which is mostly the federal government’s responsibility. Foreign policy and the military are the most important roles of the federal government and when you have more than 130 military bases around the world then military spending will skyrocket and either taxes will have to be raised or money will have to be borrowed but neither of these are acceptable because spending is the problem. 130 military bases are mostly the reason why the United States spends more on military spending than the rest of the world. The neo-conservative foreign policy of interventionalism and nation building has resulted in Islam radicals committing acts of terrorism against America because they want the American military off of muslim soil. The United States is the aggressor in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and not a single war or military action was constitutionally declared by congress since World War II. The last war the United States had legitimate reasons to be involved in was World War II because Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were a threat to America and to the entire world. Japanese air forces bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and after congress declared war on Japan, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. Hopefully the assassination of Osama Bin Laden reminds people, especially Republicans who favor war that the radicals had America because they bomb the Middle-East. If these terrorists hate us for our freedom, then they would also be attacking Switzerland. Switzerland has a staunch non-interventionalist foreign policy which involved no military intervention overseas. America has become leaning more towards a third world country because of major embarrassments to a liberty-loving nation such as $14 trillion debt, $1-2 trillion deficit, war on drugs, numerous federal and even state gun control measures, federal mandates, federal involvement and takeover of education, healthcare, transportation, violations of civil rights and liberties, drinking age of 21, criminal “injustice” systems, the state believing that it knows what’s best for us and our children, etc. Terrorists couldn’t care any less about our lifestyle and even if they hated us for our freedoms, our freedoms have been violated in almost every way. Politicians and law enforcement refuse to protect them most of the time and the judicial system hardly helps the situation and in some cases make it worse. Government has become the institutionalized version of violent criminals. This is unacceptable under the constitution and to our founding fathers who fought over 230 years ago to create this once great nation. We can’t condone or escape from these problems because they will eventually catch up and could destroy the world politically and economically. The only crimes should be crimes against people and property, conspiracy to commit those crimes, actions posing imminent and immediate danger.