Political views...Moral rights and wrongs.

So, first, let me explain the person that I am before I get too heavily into my political views. Why? Because, in order for anyone to truly get what I am expressing politically it's a good idea for them to understand where I am coming from so that there is less confusion about where I stand.

So, first, let me say that I stand on the side of morals and righteousness. Many people in America today would say that morality is simply dictated by what society accepts as right and wrong. I wholeheartedly disagree. Everybody knows in their hearts basic rights and wrongs whether society accepts certain things or not. Now things that are morally wrong that society generally accepts as ok, IE fornication, are still wrong and society knows it but is so numbed by the acceptance of such an act that generally people argue that fornication just is and is not "wrong". It's daunting how many immoral things society accepts as right. Well, I disagree with society. I am a moral man but imperfect. I say that because even I have done immoral things. Therefore, it's not my place to judge people for most immoral acts that they have committed. I judge their actions, though, and do not condone them. Another very controversial but more socially accepted idea is that of homosexuality. That is a very immoral act (note that I said act thus I am speaking simply of the homosexual acts and less of the homosexual desires). Though society is warming up to homosexuality, I will never condone homosexual activity. Having said that, however, I do not judge the homosexual person but the homosexual acts. Everybody has free agency and I disagree with any one person or government who attempts at interfering with a person's free agency so long as that free agency, once exercised, does not egregiously harm one's self or generally harm another person.

I pretty much am a live and let live kind of person. That's funny, though, right? I'm a police officer. I'm a soldier in the Army. I'm also a husband and a father. I'm a devout member of my church. I'm always trying to better myself in my eyes. I'm always trying to live a better life. I'm continually finding my weaknesses and recognizing myself as a weak man with tons of faults.

So, I drive to work and stuff and listen to the latest political stuff on the radio. I can't help but think a few things:

1) this latest political nomination is already a joke.
2) you can't trust either side; the republicans or the democrats -- heck, they are practically the same party.
3) I can't stand either candidate (McCain or Obama)
4) THANK GOODNESS Clinton is out of the primaries!
5) Why can't we just give the government an enema?
6) I don't trust our federal government.
7) a myriad of other things
8) why do Americans still insist on voting politicians into our government?
9) Out government is really messed up.

I think of tons of other things, too. One thing is for sure! I'm very pleased with the latest Supreme Court ruling allowing Americans to retain ownership of firearms and overturning the DC law on handguns.

So, generally, I would claim myself to be a Conservative Libertarian type only not as wacky on many issues. For instance, I have no official thought on drug control. I most totally agree that drugs are wrong. However, I totally agree that our government has it's fingers in *waaaay* too many things and wrongfully try and enforce laws that they as the federal government should have no fingers in the pot at all. I am somewhat of a conspiracy theorist but that is only because corrupt men have been in the government for years. When you get corrupt men in a position with supreme authority then there are supreme botch-ups. They also tend to help one another out. I have no doubt that the reason America is in the shape that it's in today that it's because of corrupt men in the government. It's sad, right? I have way more faith in our local government agencies than I do in our federal government. I don't trust Congress and I don't trust the Senate. I barely trust our supreme courts. I do NOT trust the ninth circuit court or should I say the ninth circus court. Having served in the military I can say with a surety that it is the biggest bureaucracy and the least efficient controls that I have ever witnessed. It's a sink-hole for money and needs some serious fixing! I am not fond of the bureaucracy of the American government full of lying politicians. I do not trust our government. I'm sure there are good people in the government but I have yet to see any of them.

A politician is a person who is in the government to better his or her career and couldn't care less about the people whom he or she should be serving. That is why I feel that our government needs an enema -- it's run by politicians. Politicians seem to be lawyers who have "worked their way up". We need to put ordinary people back in the government and let them run the government for the people again. That hasn't happened for years!

I was once talking to a friend of mine who was studying to be a lawyer. He told me that they are taught that there is no such thing as right or wrong and that they simply needed to go by the facts laid out before them. How can any system be governed by merely facts? As a police officer it is clearly obvious to me that our laws are based on a system of morals dictated by basic right and wrong. I do not trust lawyers. Sad, huh?

More later...