Okay, so you've been registered since 1998. That only means that you've been a knee-jerk libertarian since at least1998.
National defense is a legimate function of the Federal Government. It's right there in the constitution. Even most Libertarians admit that.
Islamists, including the ones who have attacked us, say that their ultimate goal is to create an Islamic state in the USA by whatever means come to hand. We know that the preferred method of the Islamists is violence, terrorism and war.
What part of defending the Constitution don't you understand?
Islamists, including the ones who have attacked us, say that their ultimate goal is to create an Islamic state in the USA by whatever means come to hand. We know that the preferred method of the Islamists is violence, terrorism and war.The prefered method of the state (generic)is violence and war (by definition I don't think it can be terrorism). All one has to do is look around at the history of the last century to see the landscape littered with the bodies of millions upon millions of prople needlessly put to death by the ambitions of the various states, be it Germany, Russia, Japan, whatever.
Yes, I am a Libertarian, and I'm proud of it. But I'm not knee-jerk, my friend. I just see it differently.
And I don't think in this case that the "state" is acting in the best interests of the American people.