Madison and Secession
The social conservative leader has ruled out Ron Paul for his organization’s endorsement because Paul believes in “states’ rights” across the board — rather an odd view for a Christian group to take. Christians, from Calvinists to Catholics, are supposed to believe in subsidiarity, an ancient principle of Christian social thought, whereby power is to be as dispersed and local as possible. Evidently, Ron Paul is supposed to support a nationalist approach to family issues in defiance of this principle.
Dr. Paul’s actual approach is to strip the federal courts of authority over a host of issues involving family, thereby getting the federal government out of these areas. This is the correct position constitutionally, morally, and strategically.
What could Vander Plaats’ argument against world government be? What if France is not sufficiently family friendly? Why not send in the UN? Anyone who opposes world government must be an immoral idiot who believes in “country rights” instead of the triumph of righteousness.
If Vander Plaats does not support world government, why not? Why not have a powerful world government that can use violence rather than persuasion and example to put right all the world’s wrongs? If states’ rights is the wrong position, so is countries’ rights, so can we expect Bob to follow his logic wherever it takes him, all the way to global government?
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Thomas Woods
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. [send him mail; visit his website], a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is the author of eleven books, most recently Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse and Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, as well as the New York Times bestsellers Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse and The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. He is also the editor of five other books, including the just-released Back on the Road to Serfdom.
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Well Mr. Thomas Woods, I would say you point out no better example of pure ignorance by some social conservative leaders. Not all Christian groups are created equal by their very own creation because they do not look at the results of such creations, they merely go along with some idea never investigating the facts.
I think there is no better time in history to question all ideas, but this is from the view of being willing to because there are so many around unwilling to investigate anything on the basis of total assumption. Why go through the motions of effort if you can sit idly by and assume the world around you?
Its not in all the theories we learn from but all the experiences from the testing them that amounts to a hill of beans.
Well Mr. Thomas Woods, I would say you point out no better example of pure ignorance by some social conservative leaders. Not all Christian groups are created equal by their very own creation because they do not look at the results of such creations, they merely go along with some idea never investigating the facts.
I think there is no better time in history to question all ideas, but this is from the view of being willing to because there are so many around unwilling to investigate anything on the basis of total assumption. Why go through the motions of effort if you can sit idly by and assume the world around you?
Its not in all the theories we learn from but all the experiences from the testing them that amounts to a hill of beans.