This marks the 52nd edition of our “2 Paragraphs 4 Liberty” weekly series. I will share with you unabashedly that the purpose of this column has been to pose and discuss how Liberty works and Big Government does not in facing and resolving so many varied problem areas. So I hope not only that you have thought about and considered these critically important realizations throughout the past year, but that you have also forwarded these columns and thoughts on to your social media friends so that these ideas may become more wide-spread and accepted.
With those thoughts in mind, and since I deeply believe that our country is going in the wrong direction, my intent is also to show you how Governor Gary Johnson is the only candidate running for President who actually will employ these concepts of Liberty to put our great country back on the right track. But not only does he talk a good game, he actually put Liberty into effect during the eight years he was the governor of New Mexico. And the results show it! After his two terms he left the state with a $ billion surplus, all the while working well with both Republicans AND Democrats on financial and social issues. Recently Governor Johnson announced his candidacy for the 2016 Libertarian nomination for President. Please look into this man, what he has done, who he is, and what he would do as President for our country. Governor Gary Johnson is the most qualified person to be President I know of, and if you look into it yourself, I truly believe you will come to the same conclusion! So Big Time Help is on the Way!
Judge Jim Gray (Ret.)
2012 Libertarian candidate for Vice
President, along with Governor
Gary Johnson as the candidate for President
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Recently my wife and I saw two movies: “Spotlight” and “Concussion.” Both are hard-hitting movies that focus upon perceived large-scale damages being perpetrated upon many people by two large and powerful institutions: the Catholic Church and the National Football League. Whether the facts depicted in these movies are true, recklessly false or true-but-exaggerated I leave to your conclusions and our various laws covering libel and defamation. But the ability for movie makers – or any of us – freely to publish arguments like these is fundamental to Liberty.
Most people feel that the government protects them from being sold inferior services by requiring the providers to be licensed. That may have been the original intent, but the actual practice has strayed far from that result. Instead many vested interests have used government licensing requirements simply to protect themselves from competition from others. And frequently those being restrained are young people just trying to get started in the business world. Examples of this are rampant, such as in braiding hair, selling caskets, providing childcare or teeth-whitening services and many more.
Liberty requires the right to unrestricted foreign travel, so our government generally should have no right to impede that travel. It does have the right to place somereasonable conditions upon that right – but only in those rare occasions in which that travel is for the purpose of causing material harm to our national safety or interests. So today if we want to travel to North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela or virtually anywhere else, as free people we should have the right to do so without any restrictions, much less sanctions.
As I have said before in this column, Henry Ford was socially not my favorite person in the world, but one of his quotes should be emblazoned upon the thoughts of every American: “Anyone who feels they can thrive by relying upon the government should talk to the American Indian.” In other words, the “Victim Mentality” doesn’t work. And unfortunately, it gets people down and keeps them there.
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