The picture on the top is of the deep-dark-abyss under my bed gloomily illuminated for a fraction of a second. The other picture of me tuning my guitar as I prepared to play a cover of the song “Don’t Dream it’s Over.” This didn’t workout so I did #61, my ideal government, as follows:
My ideal government? Well I really couldn’t complain if I was head honcho of a dictatorial regime. But more realistically, all I want from a government is freedom to do what I want as long as I am not hurting anybody else. This means freedom of speech, assembly, religion, sexuality, etc. Basically if the freedom is not directly harming someone it is okay. I say directly because there can always be an argument made for why a liberty is dangerous. Concerning dangerous liberties though, hate groups could exist under the freedom of assembly but they are not going to have the same rights to speech as other groups. This is because words have power, and the last thing we need is a civil conflict sparked by some loud mouthed bigot. They can say what they want, but they cannot go marching around, wasting the people’s resources when police have to be called to protect they hate mongers from a rightfully upset populace. Basically it can be justified that by marching, any group that creates undue civil unrest and needs protection should not be allowed to march. If one person wants to pass out fliers, or stand on a street corner at his or her own risk, that is fine. The government will not have resources dedicated to the protection of the people in general diverted to protect a few who would incite unrest. You might say this is unfair, but you know what? It’s my government, long live King Andrew and whatnot. But seriously, the one thing the government won’t tolerate is intolerance. In the global world in which we live, any philosophy that declares that outsiders are inferior is only going to set us back. Immigration problems can be solved through economic as supposed to punitive means. If the government removes the need for people to leave their countries and try to sneak into this country we wouldn’t have such an illegal immigration problem.
Also, this whole debacle with foreign policy. If there is genocide going on somewhere or an unjust killing of a specific group, the government will make it a point to resolve the conflict by ANY means necessary. This does not mean it will get involved in struggles between other nations, it simply means that it will not tolerate the ethnic cleansing and other like activities going on throughout the world. It will not stand by while innocent people die. Speaking of people dying, no more capital punishment either.
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