1. Age, and state you live in?
19, Ohio
2. Did you see 911 happen in real time in 2001?
The second plane, yes.
3. Would you vote for president Bush if he could run for 3 terms?
No.
4. What has the Bush administration done to benifit Americans and the world as a whole?
Tax cuts to some degree and little else. However, America's 'national interest' is a constructed value, mainly by the administration, so the Bush administration could have done quite a bit of good for this so-called national interest.
5. Do you think the government should make laws dealing with abortion and medicine?
Abortion only in the sense that a human fetus is a human life and killing it should be illegal, though you can't reverse 30 years of tradition in a single day. On medicine, no.
6. Would you go to war if you got drafted (if the draft was started)?
Yes, if I felt the war was moral, Constitutional and in the best interest of our national defense.
7. Why or why not?
Already answered.
8. Are you 100% ok with the way current politicians do/say things?
No.
9. Why havn't we captured or confirmed the death of Osama Bin Ladin?
It's a big world with a lot of people who sympathize with somebody who hates a world hegemony.
10. What would you do if the FBI raided your house in the middle of the night and told you to sit there and be quiet while they search because suspected terrorists don't have the same rights as American citizens?
I'd sit there and be quiet (government agents have a lot of force on their side), hoping they left me in peace, then publicize the incident.
11. If the government said any American citizen in the US has to switch from a drivers lisence to a national id card with an RFID chip in it in order to shop for food, travel, or even buy gasoline, would you switch without a problem?
No.
12. What do you think about the education system in America, and the no child left behind act?
It's horribly inefficient and failing. I want to see states given total control, and not have to deal with bizarre and inadequate government regulations.
13. What do you think about the healthcare system?
See #12.
14. What do you think about the war on drugs?
See #12. While I don't agree with drug use, I don't think the Feds should be doing anything more than keeping foreign illegal drugs out of the country and perhaps insuring they aren't being trafficked or sold across state lines. The smokers in Cali can have their pot though.
15. What are you general thoughs about police?
Police are necessary and in my experience a boon to their communities.
16. What did you think of Alberto Gonzales?
No real opinion. His actions are a direct result of the administration he is affiliated with.
17. What do you think about Michael Mukasey?
See #16.
18. What do you think about waterboarding?
It's torture. Any government professing the sanctity of Life and the right to Liberty and Happiness cannot arbitrarily deny these things to certain people, even if they aren't citizens of our nation.
19. Do you think there are people who benifit greatly from international wars being waged?
Yes.
20. What do you think about the federal reserve, inflation, the way our money system works?
Works? It doesn't. We are able to drag it out and prolong an inevitable downturn only by further exploitation and devaluation of the dollar.
21. What do you think about the income tax?
It's counterintuitive to a society based on bettering yourself by working harder to make more, when your money, before you even see it, is going to be taken from you.
22. What do you think about global warming?
I have yet to see conclusive proof though I enjoy nature and see nothing wrong with taking steps to prevent the degradation of or otherwise help our environment. However, I am against world or even national regulations.
23. What do you think about the formation of the NAU?
This would be a horrible travesty and insult to much of what we were founded on. Yet another blow to our sovereignty.
24. What are your religious views?
I guess you'd say agnostic and rather spiritual.
25. What's your opinion on the number of Iraqi civilian casualties during the war on terror?
I don't feel we had authority to interfere with this nation's civil government and such deaths are murders, some caused by us, others by terrorists.
26. What's your opinion on the number of Iraqi refugees fleeing the country?
See #25 save we caused their homelessness as opposed to deaths.
27. What's your opinion on Iraqi polls that say 70%-80% of the people of the country want the US out of Iraq?
Something doesn't seem right about that as McCain is leading in the polls. So something's gotta be cooked I think.
28. What's your take on McCains statement about 100 years in Iraq if need be?
We shouldn't have been in Iraq 100 days, let alone 100 years. It's insane, unpatriotic and anti-American to prolong this effort, especially well into the next decade.
1. Age
19
2. Favorite historical political figure. (make a top 5 if you like)
The Founding Fathers
Capt. John Brown
3. Favorite current political figure
Ron Paul
4. Favorite philosopher
Albert Camus
Erich Fromm
Henry David Thoreau
Shakespeare
5. Favorite work of literature (or book)
Far too many, classics and modern, to name one
6. Religious affiliation
Agnostic and attending and Independent Baptist Church
7. Political affiliation
Republican - struggling with a Libertarian vs. Conservative view, leaning to the latter.
8. Educational background and aspirations (political or otherwise)
Similar to Static, with high school and some college. I'm majoring in Poli Sci with no longterm career plans save for aspirations of public office.