, and he has enough media ties, and enough money, to run a serious race. You can help support his candidacy by buying a copy of his book, Millionaire Republican. Root announced yesterday 01-24-2007 that he is strongly supporting the Libertarian Party as an alternative to the major parties. Root has long considered himself a Republican, but has finally tired of the Republican Party stabbing him in the back in the name of puritanism and Nanny-State religious zealotry. He rightfully notes that the US is engaged in battling nutjob Islamic religious extremists (who think they will get to heaven by blowing up US citizens) and thus shouldn't give radical religious extremists in our own country the power of government (who think they'll get to heaven by jailing US citizens for exercising their rights to private property).Given that Alaska will have its own initiative to legalize gambling on the ballot in 2008, it would be a blessing to have a serious presidential candidate that belives we all own the dollars in our own bank accounts. This is the basic foundation of individual property rights: do you own your own wealth, and can you decide how to use it? Or does the government own your wealth, and by extension, your life? The appropriately-named congressional parasite Jim Leach (R-Iowa) was a cosponsor of the recent ban on online gambling. He states that the internet equals: "crack cocaine for gamblers. Never before has it been easier to lose so much money so quickly so young."
And he thus points to the heart of the issue, and, being stupid, comes to the wrong conclusion.
Yes, people will lose all their money gambling. People will also lose all their money opening restaurants at about the same odds. Should that be illegal too?
People will drink themselves to death too. Should that be illegal too? Prohibitionists still think so, because they don't belive in individual freedom, or the freedom to make bad choices. But the freedom to choose can't allow the freedom of new thought, if "bad choices" are outlawed. Why? Because those who wish to outlaw "bad personal choices" lack imagination. They can't imagine the possible difference between an intelligent risk, and a bad risk. Ultimately, these same kind of Nanny-state scumbags think that online investing should be illegal, even though it has dramatically increased the wealth and quality of life for millions of Americans. Why? Oh my! --It's a risk.
Risk is good. America is a nation built on risk. Shooting redcoats dead was a huge risk.
But getting rid of moralizing jerks that want to steal from us, (in the name of some imaginary divine right), was deemed worth it at the time. So the minutemen loaded their guns and killed King George's men. And now we have a new King George who taxes us a lot more than the one early Americans violently rejected.
The leech from Iowa is right. Gambling IS like crack. It's a choice that frequently works out badly for those who choose it. But, just like smoking crack, or using meth, or committing suicide, or having unprotected sex, it's a choice that free men should be allowed to make.
If we don't own our own bodies our own drugs, our own lives, we don't own our own medical choices. We therefore don't have any right to own private property.
And not being able to own private property has turned America into one more miserable socialist country. Lurching along on the remnants of the industrial revolution, but squashing initiative by government edict. Until two years ago, you could have asked William Dobelle. He was a researcher who left the USA to finance a lab in Lisbon Portugal. Why leave the USA?
Because the moralizing Nanny-State drug warrior jerks that the American public elected drove his research out of the country. Why? --He was doing "risky" research that resulted in a working cybernetic cure for the blind. The FDA wouldn't "approve" his research (which involved brain surgery performed on consenting adult volunteers).
But without a country that believed in property rights, he lost millions moving his lab to Lisbon, where blind people were allowed to TAKE THE RISK OF SURGERY TO CURE THEIR BLINDNESS. A few blind people did just that. I mean c'mon people! If America is so unfree it drives out a cure for blindness, how screwed up has it become? Has America utterly lost its spine --and all of the freedom that once made it great?
Who knows how far along a blindness cure would be now, if it weren't for the theocratic ruling class within the US government? If the government can prevent you from making an unconventional or risky bad decision, it can prevent you from innovating and making an unconventional good decision as well. How many people remain in darkness because of the FDA? How many people lost fortunes by not being allowed to gamble online? We may never know their individual stories.
Either you own private property (after all, you own your own body, don't you? ...Or are you a literally an owned slave?), or the government owns YOU.
It's time for Americans to reassert their property rights. Root is one of the guys trying to make it happen. The difference will be enormous.
Or we can hand over our rule of law to the leeches in congress, and the thugs who enforce their laws from within the alphabet soup of government agencies that now have unlimited license to bully US citizens.
The ATF bullies gun owners, and liquor and tobacco shops. The DEA bullies drug users and sellers. The FDA bullies vitamin shops, health advisors, researchers, and doctors. The IRS bullies everyone. The EPA bullies ranchers, hunters, developers and farmers. City and State governments bully home-schoolers. The DOJ bullies microsoft.
I could go on, but the list would be a hundred pages long. Government has overstepped its bounds by violating our property rights with its many prohibitions.
Let's rebuild a free Alaska, and a free United States. The foundation we need to build is the foundation of the US Constitution: property rights. Without property rights, we don't own the molecules that make up our own bodies and our own brains. We don't own the atoms of the very neurotransmitters that make freedom of thought possible.
And without freedom of thought, there is nothing but an anti-intellectual socialist wasteland, like the one depicted in George Orwell's "1984", and Ayn Rand's "We the Living"
, where those with political connections rule the rest of us with an iron hand.If only the average voter could be somehow made aware of the cost of ignoring the political philosophy of limited government! ...And that's where Wayne Root comes in. ...On the side of the same battle that Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lysander Spooner, and Barry Goldwater once fought.
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