War is the health of the state. Anybody who wants small government, conservatives and the constitutionalist, libertarians -- if they want small government, they have to understand that war is the health of the state.
Ron Paul argues that war justifies government expansion, which contradicts the principles of small government.
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Safety is the only thing that I care about. Both economically and physical safety is the driving force and it's also the destruction of liberty.
I think there has been a few of us who have been warning about this, and voted against the Patriot Act, voted against these FISA courts. So it doesn't surprise me a bit.
No, this is not justification to turn over your liberties, turn over everything that is precious, and say the government can have total control of me because they might stop something sometime.