I


I have long been in favor of eliminating the FDA, EPA and most of the other illegal government agencies that exist. It is a difficult argument to win. Nancy Pelosi was asked about Trumps pick for SCOTUS. She reflexively went to fear mongering. She said that he would dirty the air and water, take away womens rights, make children less safe...and on and on. Fear and insecurity are effective weapons for Progressives and when you throw in the press as an accomplice it's hard to convince people that freedom and liberty are superior to any alternative.

So, if I put up a fence with a lockable gate, place signs on my yard saying keep out, put a locking my door on my home and keep it closed and locked more than open, I am a prisoner? And those wishing to come on my property to use my garden faucet for water and enter my home because they are hungry or use my toilet because they have need to do so, or lay their heads on my bed because they are cold and tired from traveling, have every right to do so because they are passing through to elsewhere and my property is in the way?

I get natural rights (individuals enter society with certain rights that no government has the right to deny). I also get that we live in a world with boundaries, political and personal. Ignoring those pesky unnatural boundaries is a great way to get yourself hurt or worse.

I believe you are totally correct on this DB. It's my belief, our large government is a direct result of the mistaken practice of making people safe, instead of protecting our natural rights. If they simply stuck to protecting our natural rights our government would be significantly smaller and we would all get to keep more of our property.

After briefly reading some of the comments on here, they appear to suggest that more non-citizens (than US citizens) come here with the malicious intent to do harm to US citizens. I ask any of you, how many people born of another country came to America to do harm to its citizens? Not saying the number is zero, but from my research, there are more US citizens that have done harm (acts of terror) to other US citizens than non-citizens have done in recent years. Please correct me if I am wrong about the statistics of acts of terrorism performed by foreign terrorists vs US citizens as committed on American soil. I will say that my research fails in consideration of the failed attempts by terrorists that were successfully prevented by our government and/or other parties as well considering acts of terrorism carried out or prevented in other countries against US citizens.

With this being said, I would like to point out that the Soros-funded protests that destroy and pillage our small business communities are just as much (if not more) a threat to the safety and preservation of our rights as any foreign threats that we may encounter. Your comments are appreciated, however they may come.

Keeping yourself safe is a personal responsibility, involving an awareness of one's surroundings, knowledge regarding how to successfully interact with those surroundings, (in whatever form) and a philosophical premise that the use of force is only justified in self defense. All other relationships require persuasion and voluntary consent.
Those who do not, or are unable, (or unwilling) to understand this concept often confuse it with security (as provided by others, typically government) and seem to lack the desire for, or understanding of, personal freedom.
Security, (feeling safe) is more often than not related to how well one has adapted to, (and has knowledge of) his environment and his personal coping skill set

One of the long term plans of the corporate gov. we have now has been to offer security in exchange for our freedoms. And it is working very well. In time past you would know everyone who lived on the same block as you. If someone had a problem you would help them out even if you didn't like them very much. You would help them because you knew when the time came and you need help they would come to your aid. The gov. has been inserting itself between us. "You can depend on the gov. to care for you." Implying you don't need your neighbors help. Isolating us from each other and making it easier to control us. So how many of us know who our neighbors are? And would you help them?

db; Good Post, and timely in my view. Existence exists and life comes with Rights, but only to those that choose to reason and use their rational minds. Giving up one's Rights in the face of fear is not rational or reasoned, particularly when it also includes becoming a slave, either to those that promise you something that's impossible to give you, or to irrational fear.

"Brutal people keeping us safe."
Anyone else see the irony?

Buy a gun and learn how to use it as well as not how to use it.
That's what we call both freedom and security down here in Alabama.
Oh, yeah, locking doors can really help.
And pay attention to who is around you.

The comment that "we have no new vaccines" is obviously from somebody not paying attention. The pipeline of new vax is stuffed and flowing. This is due to a few different reasons.

No different than the question, do we prefer to belong to a collective for the safety of belonging to that collective, but a collective that nevertheless requires of us to sacrifice our individual self for the greater good of others.

Government cannot protect you in prisons which are hell holes of gang violence and drugs. Government cannot protect you from getting shot in half the blocks in major cities. As Hannah Arendt said the origin of totalitarianism is not dictatorships or oligarchies but democracies which make control and servitude legal. Good comment!
PS don't forget we are in a interglacial warming period and have many hundreds of years before the next glaciation epoch.

No one has to trade one for the other. You can have both. But as seen in some places in Europe. Open borders have given up both, security and freedom.

Just to be clear, the SCOTUS has ruled that law enforcement, as an arm of government, has no responsibility to keep you safe. It has a constitutional responsibility to defend you, to the best of its abilities, against enemies foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, our government (local, state, and federal) has a tendency to go overboard with defense measures, adopting counterproductive regulations to attempt to keep us free from harm, including that which might be inflicted on us by ourselves. This is why gas cans no longer work, because the vents have been ordered removed to attempt to reduce spillage to zero.

considering the FACT that the police paid to protect us located in Berkley ca. did nothing to stop the jackasses last night tells me we deserve neither.

"If safety is your priority then the government should build big prisons and put everyone in them where they can protect them."
Yes!
[Sarcasm]If it saves even one child, then we must do it.[/Sarcasm]