There is nothing conservative about, the government running the education system, there is nothing conservative about the government wiretapping or otherwise ease dropping on us without a warrant, there is nothing conservative about John McCain.  There is nothing conservative about voting for the republican party blindly just because they are the republican party.  Just because Sean Hannity or Rush tells us a thought or an idea is conservative doesn't make it so.   There is nothing conservative about giving up our liberty for temporary security.

The Supreme Court ruled that the guys at Guantanamo have the right of habeas corpus (let the body be brought), or the right to know in a court of law what evidence there is against them, and answer the charges.   All the so called conservatives are throwing a hissy because we are "giving them access to Constitutional rights".

Well, if they are really conservative and believe in a strict constructionist approach then there is no other option.  I quote from our declaration of independence.

" We hold the truths self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

I know that this is not the Constitution, but it is the train of thought and the document that set modern conservative thought and our country in motion.  In a legal system that loves to use precedent instead of law, as law it would seem obvious that the declaration of independence should be a vital piece in the foundation of our later Constituion and laws.

The concept of all men being equal and rights being given to us by God not governments has been lost on the people that are passed off on us as conservatives today.   GOD gave us our rights not men.  And our government that was set up to safeguard and protect all men's God given rights, has no business saying that only people born in America receive their rights from God, and all other peoples receive what ever we decide is appropriate.

That said, present the evidence against them, convict them if guilty, and carry out the sentence with as most haste as possible.  We should not lower or selves to act like the bad guys by holding folks indefinitely with no charges being brought, citizen or not. 

We should continue to be that shining light on the hill that Reagan spoke of, not a 3 watt compact florescent under a horse blanket in a secret prison on another countries land.

This just made me think of something else, we have no diplomatic relations with Cuba, but we have a military prison on the island of Cuba.  What right do we have to have a military base in another country that we won't even talk to?  That is not conservative.  That is a hold over from the democrats, that the republicans seem to see no problem with.   You know what would be conservative?

It would be conservative to bring our troops home to our Country, to defend our borders, to drill for and utilize our own natural resources, to quit telling every other nation in the world how to run their own affairs, to quit guaranteeing equality of results instead of equality of oppretunity, to stop using the Federal Reserve, to use or on United States Treasury's Constitutional power to coin and regulate money backed by Gold, to give back the sovereign states their sovereignty, to let people on a local level decide local matters, these are conservative ideas, these are also ideas that we never here from todays so called conservatives.  They are to busy telling us that everything that the democrat's used to stand for is now what the republican party should stand for and thats okay and the way it has always been.

 

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