Liberty & Privacy
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government" - Patrick Henry
Liberty & Privacy At A Glance
I support:- The Bill of Rights, and in the context of privacy and personal liberty, especially the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments.
I oppose:
- Warrantless wiretaps.
- The creation of extra-judicial systems to deal with enemy combatants.
- Waterboarding and other forms of torture.
- I believe our government must respect the 800 year foundation of the law embodied in the principle of habeas corpus.
The Constitution was written to restrict the actions of the government, not individuals. That is why we call ours a limited government. Unfortunately, American political vocabulary is filled with a lexicon of different types of liberty: civil liberty, economic liberty, sexual liberty, financial liberty, etc.
Yet, in the end, there is only liberty. And if we support some types of liberty but not others, ultimately we will be left without liberty at all.