Time for some opinions?
By: Christian Malone
It’s time for some short opinions.
Haha, sorry Barga, I forgot to take credit for my work. No one would believe that you support the criminalization of flag-burning. but that would be funny.
This is my version, I suppose, of the political courage test. I dearly hope that someday in the future, while running for office, someone digs this up and tries to call me out on my positions, because sometimes I don’t get to state them all. I have quite a few positions, as you will see shortly…
This is in no particular order, just in the order in which I think of them (there are more if you click Continue Reading).
Abortion: Illegal in most cases. Legal in the case of medical necessity, legal in the case of rape or incest. The physician will make the decision as to medical necessity. The physician may be held accountable if the abortion is done without any medical cause or these special cases, and the woman may be held accountable if fraud is involved. Late term abortions always illegal, no abortions in the third trimester.
Firearms: Continue the instant background check system, strengthen the system to include psychological profiles. Punish those who sell knowingly to criminals. Hold firearms manufacturers harmless in sales. Allow non-violent felons to own firearms. Keep no records regarding firearms ownership whatsoever. Allow concealed/open carry everywhere, encourage school teachers to carry openly or concealed in classrooms. Allow graduated licensing for minors, standardize national concealed/open carry licenses and classes.
Narcotics: Decriminalize all forms of narcotics ownership, sales, and use. Criminalize the “cutting” of drugs with harmful substances. Tax recreational drugs very heavily.
Alcohol: Eliminate drinking age. Maintain and strengthen punishment of impaired driving/operation of firearms/machinery. Allow concealed/open carry in liquor-license businesses.
Tobacco: Continue to require the Surgeon-General’s warning on tobacco products. Remove smoking/tobacco age.
Prostitution: Decriminalize. Tax heavily, require disclosure of all medical issues related to STIs, prosecute fraud, abuse, and trafficking. Continue to ban underage prostitution.
Gambling: Allow all forms of gambling, but continue to allow sports commissions to ban officials and players from gambling in their own sports or in certain other related sports.
Roads: Raise speed limits dramatically, shift focus from high speed offences to wreckless driving and intoxication. Improve funding for roads.
Social Security: Allow opt-out of Social Security insurance.
Healthcare: Pay for all medically necessary or expedient procedures. Allow second tier insurance leads to pay for optional, overly risky or experimental procedures. Do not take over hospitals/healthcare practices.
Public Transport: Improve bus system cross-country, build more railways.
Marriage: De-institutionalize marriage, recognize unions between free people associating for tax purposes with one another for sexual or non-sexual reasons. Provide full rights for homosexuals and polygamists.
Flag-burning: Criminalize as an act of war against the United States of America. Prosecute heavily, punish harshly.
Nudity/Topfreedom: Decriminalize nudity as a state of dress in public. Continue to prosecute lewd acts in public.
Defense: Allow for preemptive action. Increase military salary. Create a track by which those who cannot afford college can serve for a period of time either before or after enlistment to pay for college. Continue “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Consider review of sodomy policy in the UCMJ.
Federal disaster aid: Continue to fund FEMA, but make clear that the federal government has no responsibility by law to provide any relief to those affected by disaster.
Police: Make clear that the police exist for the maintainance of the law, and also for protection of the public from lawbreakers, but that the police cannot protect every individual at all times. Encourage private arms ownership.
Financial industry: Deregulate in general, but require disclosure of practices for review by customers and potential customers for all products and services.
Fiat money: Continue practice, but attempt to balance inflation and deflation so the dollar stays steady.
Affirmative Action: Discontinue, but tax those who employ discriminatory hiring practices and who hire based on race. This tax applies to those who, having a complaint filed against them, have been found by an expert to have denied hiring/retention to employees based on race, gender, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation. Exceptions exist for those catering to specific audiences and who explicitly state this in doing business.
Campaign finance: Deregulate.
Welfare: Implement workfare as the only policy for work-eligible individuals. Continue to provide aid to disabled individuals.
Education: Nationalize the primary and secondary public education system. Create guaranteed loans for those wishing to go to post-secondary institutions who show satisfactory progress and reasonable time of completion. Create cap on amount of money loaned.
Voting: Implement Instant-Runoff Voting. Allow increased freedom for third parties and unaffiliated candidates.
Environment: No caps on emissions unless they prove poisonous or harmful to humans. Replace much of America’s power grid with smart grids, allow and encourage building of hundreds of new nuclear power facilities, open and support Yucca mountain facility.
Any other issue: Ask me. There are many issues about which I have less concern, such as prison reform, but would be happy to think about and express my opinion on.
I really do hope someone looks at this when they go to vote for me or not. I am an issues voter, as such, I expect people to judge me by my positions on the issues.
Um, statistics show that the speed corrolates to deaths. I vote keep em slow
Robert M. Barga Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
The flag is not our nation
What do you think of flag boxers, flag wrapped candy, the tiny flags in gardens, the flags on a bad of potatoes, etc?
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Christian Malone Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:41 am
Boxers: Hate them.
Candy: So-so.
Tiny flags: Patriotic.
Potatoes: Symbol of U.S. agriculture and trade, ad used honorably.
The difference is the intention, even though it’s going a little overboard when you turn it into clothes. I don’t like the boxers because that’s not in good taste.
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Robert M. Barga Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 10:46 am
My question is, what if i burn a bad of Idaho potatoes?
Christian Malone Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Then, you’re a horrible person for wasting food when there’s starving kids in China. A flag carries the sole purpose of representing allegiance to one’s nation/state/polity. Consumer goods which represent the image of the flag are a different thing altogether, mostly to appeal to the “made in America” isolationist crowd. ALL that a flag is good for is representing allegiance and patriotism. Therefore, to burn it willingly is to burn the symbol of allegiance and patriotism. Thus, I assume that the person is, at the least, a pinko commie. But seriously, that is the most literal way to interpret it. Burn the symbol of allegiance to a country in defiance, and it can be assumed that you have no allegiance to that country. I’m not judging treason, it’s perfectly fine with me, but I would define the act as treason.
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Christian Malone Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 pm
But hey, if you like treason, don’t let me stop you. I’ve thought about it. Mostly based on religious grounds (A man cannot serve two masters. He will love one, and hate the other.) (Render unto Caesar what is his, but he doesn’t own me/my soul/my money). Hey, is that the DHS knocking on my doo……
(HAHA)
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