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...understand this lack of response, we must seek to comprehend why Eric Nelson holds Islamic "fundamentalism" to be a danger warranting the sacrifice of his own valued democratic principles. Nelson boldly generalizes, "Almost as a rule, these Islamic revolutions turn to tyranny and terror...". Neither Algeria nor Turkey, examples of Islamic fundamentalism cited by Nelson, were "revolutions" that overturned the existing order; in fact, the Refah, a Turkish Islamic party, operated willingly and effectively within the existing democratic system. Algeria descended into chaos because the world looked on and allowed the suppression of democratic results, not because of the Islamic...
...federal government has placed more and more limitations on speech, especially over the Internet, and gun control, with bans on certain automatic and semi-automatic weapons. While bans on speech have been successfully fought in court, the weapons policy has created a criminal black market which Libertarians would seek to end, by lifting bans for those without a criminal record...
...often the fortunate and well-educated who seek to push the law to its limits regardless of ethics. How many times have we all responded to a situation of questionable ethics by saying, "Yeah, but it's perfectly legal...
...lesser problem with strict interpretation of Constitution is that there are certain policies and programs clearly in our national interest that the authors of the Constitution could not have foreseen. Libertarians seek to cut funding for the space program, which they claim exceeds the legal limits of American government. Similarly, they propose to sell off most of the land in the National Parks System, claiming that the government doesn't have a passable explanation for reserving so much land for public...
After a week of trying out for the different groups, the majority of auditionees must seek other musical outlets -- if not an entirely different extra curricular activity...