We need to let men like Ron Paul to educate us about National Security
No matter how something like Homeland Security starts - no matter how noble the intention of our dear, dear government leaders - the very existence of something like Homeland Security is dangerous.
Why?
Because it places Big Levers of unchecked power in the hands of imperfect, corruptible bureaucrats. This means that when they need or want to use this power for something that goes beyond its intended use, they will. (That's why Libertarians don't like large levers of power lying around: because they are, by definition, abused)
When Bush was creating Homeland Security, nobody on the Right criticized it. We didn't see one rally about runaway Big Government. Tragically, because their information systems didn't mention it, the Right didn't see the potential for abuse. In theory, though, the Right should have noticed it because they are supposed to defend us against the growth of the federal government.
Here is a bigger problem: the Right is not opposed to the department itself; they are opposed to the way Obama is using it. That is, they care more about Leaders (good leader v bad leader) than ideas (good forms of government versus bad forms of government power). This means they can't protect us from the growth of government when their party is in office.
Worse: since none of their trusted information sources are critical of Homeland Security
as a concept, they lack the tools to criticize it (they end up only being able to criticize or praise the president in charge of it). This is why our country is stuck in the mud. Our citizens have been transformed into useful idiots whose loyalty is to their party, not their country.
So I have a favor to ask of the Right. Let's criticize the dangerous centralization of power no matter who is in office - Bush or Obama. Let's do what we were not allowed to do under Bush: question the value of Homeland Security.
Here is your first homework assignment: read this. Go ahead, just click the link. It's from the Washington Post. I won't tell FOX News. It will be our little secret.
A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com
The reason I'm begging the Right to read this criticism of Homeland Security is because we can't afford another George Bush, who uses fear to grow Big Government bureaucracies. We can't afford for the next Republican administration to create another large lever of centralized power. Why? Because, while we know you trust GOP leaders, you cannot prevent these levers of power from falling into the hands of the other side. This is why we must trust the Libertarians and stop creating levers of centralized power.
(Remember: we vote for Republicans because they make government smaller. Yet, every time you get power, you use national security to explode the Pentagon budget and create whole knew bureaucracies. Please stop. Big Government can't stop evil. It can't create a utopia of total safety. It can't end poverty or change the temperature. Life includes risk. If you want to fly in an airplane or go into a skyscraper, you have to accept some risk. Please stop destroying my freedom because of your fear. Please stop being manipulated by your party to grow government into a steroidal surveillance state. Stop giving this kind of power to big government, they will only make things worse)
(When will the Right stop trusting and growing big government?)
