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Oh, that's whose voice I heard! :up: I remember some interaction with @Occam's Banana about whether I would vote for Ron Paul again or not. I said no I wouldn't [even though I did in '12], he wrongly implied that I would. I'm so over voting...

You have it reversed. The designation means they can receive CIA funding.

I think we should be concerned about crimes on account of what they actually are as crimes, without respect for other special labels that can be applied to them, like "hate crime," or "terrorism," based on what the internal motivation of the...

Monetary motives are a big factor. But I wouldn't limit it to that.

I always assumed it to be monetary. Like when they do it to a drug cartel it is only for purpose of seizing any funds they can find

Honestly, I doubt that anyone is in the clear. No matter what you believe in, you have enemies somewhere in the government. And this gives them more tools to use against you without needing any objective litmus test.

I suspect that it has been used as a pretext to do a lot of domestic spying that the public is not told about. The upside to applying the "terrorist organization" label to a make-believe organization that anyone can be accused of belonging to...

That is how it has come to be interpreted by those who benefit from bigger government. But that is not what was agreed to by those who ratified the Constitution. For them, it was the exact opposite. The federal government had no powers except for...

Seriously. Threaten to arrest them. Or else this is a meaningless symbolic gesture of someone who probably actually wants the troops there and only wants to make it look like they don't.

Agree. Agree. Agree. Agree and agree. But in this case, there's even something more basic and pragmatic. It's a self-selecting, meaningless, internet poll; conducted by The Western Journal nonetheless. Close examination reveals a surreal...

You have it backwards. When someone else is sovereign over me, that doesn't protect my freedom. It violates it. This regime that is sovereign over me is one that has already conquered my land and taken my freedom. That's what sovereignty entails...

And immigration regulation is not one of the things that the Constitution delegates to the federal government.

"Hate" is probably too strong a word for what I think about the Constitution. I reject its validity. It has some good in it, and some bad. But it is not the law of the land, simply because no one who has the authority to declare a law of the land...

The federal government derives its power from the states and from the people. Constitutionally the only laws the federal government has any right to pass and enforce are laws that are necessary and proper for its performing of the functions...

If a state welcomes an immigrant, then that immigrant is not an invader. If federal agents in a state break that state's laws, then the local law enforcement in that state and county have the right and duty to arrest those law breakers, and their...