If you must submit to mandatory, unconstitutional searches on aircraft, you have restrictions on your travel. While the Federal government has the Constitutional authority to regulate overseas travel, even to Canada and Mexico, it has no authority to do so domestically, unless you choose to abuse the "interstate commerce" clause against the original intent of the Framers/
Why should I care if there are cameras on highways?
Any power or authority given to government is subject to abuse. The best way to prevent abuse is to deny government power or authority. In the last century, over 100 million persons were killed by governments, a number far greater than all those killed by organized or unorganized criminals. The massacre at the Branch Davidian facility in Waco resulted in far more deaths than did the Valentine Day massacre or the murders of Jeffrey Dahmer, the Son of Sam, etc.
Nor do I have a problem with “monetary transactions,” because I can’t remember the last time I needed to deposit or withdraw $10,000 in cash.
What business is it of the Feds if a person chooses to use currency rather than checks or electronic transfers? These regulations, which are unconstitutional, have done nothing to dry up drug trafficking, which was their initial intent. However, they do serve to provide the IRS and other agencies with a means of controlling the so-called underground economy. A conservative, that is, one who adheres to and seeks restoration of the foundational principles of this republic, should favor the abolition of the income tax and the restriction of government power so that the Feds are limited to legitimate functions, like national defense.
The police where I live are the opposite of abusive, they are helpful and polite and protect me from the bad guys.
I know nothing of your local police department, but the frequency of abusive behavior by lawmen and an increasingly arrogant attitude toward those they are sworn to defend, has increased over the last few years. Have you forgotten the "don't taze me, bro" incident when a student who asked a question of Senator John Kerry was given a mini-elecrocution. Please check out http://www.policeabuse.org, a Web site established by a former police detective. You cannot have the sort of moral decline this nation has undergone for decades without expecting that the police, drawn from this culture, will reflect the moral relativism and self-centeredness increasingly dominant. As for protection, the most and best police can do is to take information after the fact and hopefully catch the criminal or recover stolen merchandise. You, not the police, are responsible for protecting yourself from bad guys, as several Supreme Court cases have stated.
I agree with you about the Fairness Doctrine, “thought crime” legislation, gun control, private property, socialized medicine and other unpleasant Marxist trends on the horizon.
Fair enough, but once you permit restrictions on liberty for things of no concern to you, your grounds to oppose restrictions on things that you support are weakened. I care for the rule of law, but that rule has eroded over the years, and there is in effect one standard for the wealthy, elected officials, bureaucrats, and police, and another for the rest of us. As our Founding Fathers believed, an unjust law is no law. We have many unjust laws.
I am sure you are right, Wallace, and I have to say the tinfoil hat becomes you.