4um: Importing our Foreign Policy

Senator Lindsay Graham kills me.

The hawkish Republican from South Carolina isn’t exactly standing up for limited government. His latest oration, on the presidential stump in Iowa, warned Americans far and wide that, were he sitting in the White House with his finger poised above The Button and “you’re thinking about joining al-Qaeda or ISIL [Islamic State] — anybody thinking about that? — I’m not gonna call a judge.”

Adding mucho macho-flash: “I’m gonna call a drone and we will kill you.”

Like you, it never crossed my mind to join either the Islamic State or al-Qaeda. So, a big “meh,” eh?

Neh.

The attacks on civil liberties, committed under the cover of fighting terrorism, must end. I hope that Section 215 of the ridiculously-named USA Patriot Act will expire. I also want to halt the secret, process-less, law-less, global drone-strike program.

And I don’t think I am asking too much for the next president to not regularly threaten audiences with wider, more gleeful and less accountable use of drones.

Remember, Sen. Graham said “thinking about.”

Even with the NSA tracking our every key-stroke, government could still make a mistake about what we’re thinking.

Moreover, even if you disagree with me — perhaps wanting the War on Terror to be fought with more fury — it still seems counter-productive for the wannabe POTUS: (a) to imply that Americans must be bullied out of joining the latest jihadist gang in the Middle East and (b) to suggest the Prez has the dictatorial power to summarily execute an American on the mere suspicion of a thought crime.

Graham, president? Don’t die laughing.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

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Nice words from the "peace loving" Graham. Seems like Graham and his peers are happy to do the same to millions of Americans for any variety of reasons. Nice to see our good Christian government policing the world. The odds of anyone being killed by our own government are astronimically higher than they are of being killed here in our country by anyone from Al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, and all of the rest of the known terrorist groups combined, and forgetting which are CIA machinations to begin with and not even counting that those could qualify as "our government." (1 image)

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

It's interesting, I was thinking today that the going thing is that they represent us. After some thought, I couldn't think of one single swine in Congress that even comes close to representing a large fraction of me much less the majority of me.

In fact, they represent so little of me that I'd rather be "without representation" in that sense.

What they represent is our corrupt banking syndicate, the biggest money bags in the corporate world, immorality, a lack of ethics, bribery, injustice, greed, oppressive laws in both nature as well as quantity, a false and contrived economy, and so many more unchristian, immoral, and in some cases even satanic things.

I stand for justice, morality, the two most important commandments in the Bible per Jesus, peace, liberty, a strong work ethic that isn't just on paper, a just and truly self-balancing economy, etc.