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Vote: | Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. |
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Vote: | Crime rates go down when offenders must compensate their victims and responsible citizens are allowed to carry concealed arms. |
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Vote: | Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. |
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Vote: | Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution. |
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Vote: | Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. |
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Vote: | Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it. Don't even think about taking my guns. My rights are not negotiable, and I am totally unwilling to compromise when it comes to the Second Amendment. |
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Vote: | I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. |
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Vote: | I do not interfere with your personal life domestically, and internationally, our military forces should not be interfering with foreign governments. |
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Vote: | I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself. |
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Vote: | I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property. |
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Vote: | If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now. |
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Vote: | NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. |
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Vote: | On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War. |
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Vote: | The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. |
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Vote: | The government never does anything successfully. |
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Vote: | The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. |
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Vote: | The reason that we can't find a relationship between the Constitution and the government is that there is none. |
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Vote: | War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants. |
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Vote: | When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. |
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Michael J. Badnarik (born August 1, 1954) is an American software engineer and political figure. He was the Libertarian Party (a third party) nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, slightly behind independent candidate Ralph Nader.
Personal life
Born in Hammond, Indiana, the oldest son of John and Elaine Badnarik, and the grandson of Slovak immigrants, Michael Badnarik attended Indiana University at Bloomington but left one semester away from earning a degree in chemistry. He worked as a computer programmer at the Zion nuclear plant beginning in 1977, and from 1982 to 1985, was a senior software engineer for Commonwealth Edison.
In 1985, he relocated to Montebello, California, to work on the Stealth Bomber simulator project and in 1987 moved to San Luis Obispo, California, as a system administrator and computer trainer at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant.
In 1997, unhappy with gun laws enacted by the California legislature, Badnarik moved to Texas and began work as a senior trainer for Evolutionary Technologies International. He currently resides in Austin, Texas.
Badnarik worked as a Red Cross volunteer during the 1970s, and has been a volunteer leader in several Boy Scout troops (Badnarik came just short of becoming an Eagle Scout as a youth). He is a certified scuba and skydiving instructor.
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