We are all citizens of one world. The personal choices we make in our lifestyles and our government's actions in both domestic and world affairs have implications for the rest of the inhabitants of the globe and ultimately, for ourselves. This perspective is about listening to the voices of our neighbors in the world.

[Example Perspective] We can do a lot better. The vast majority of the worlds people live under conditions of grinding poverty. Our leaders continually concoct wars to drive profits in the mility and rob resources from the worlds poor.

[Example Perspective] Traditional Conservatism. Paleo-conservatism. Traditional values, small government and free markets.

[Example Perspective] The left of the US Democratic party is a mix of environmentalists; champions of equality for minorities, women, gay men and lesbian women; unions and comsumer watchdog groups.

[Example Perspective] All across the world human rights and civil liberties are under attack. In first world countries, the "war on terrorism" has ushered in a new age of attacks on our privacy and right to live as we choose. In the third world the situation is even more dire.

[Example Perspective] This perspective is meant to cover a wide variety of political groups. European mainstream state socialism, the populist socialism of the wobblies, then modern communism as in Cuba and China.

[Example Perspective] America is the greatest nation on earth. We have a responsiblity to maintain and to advance our position in the world. We must protect our nation from the terrorists who so hate our freedom.

Every single person wants control over their own life. However to accomplish most things in life, people have to work together. How they decide what and how is the definition of politics. I consider each such political activity as a separate government. How that particular government is organized, who decides and how the others hold that decider responsible, is the fine grain of freedom or tyranny, and differs in each case. A Progressive Libertarian seeks the balance between committees that can't decide anything, and autocrats that can't be held responsible for exploiting all the others. The more diverse the grain the easier the accountability, if there is a larger scale enforcer of accountability or competing powers. A large scale dilutes accountability, no matter if that scale is a state run enterprise, or a large corporation, church, union, or even social club. By the same token scale concentrates power so competing powers cannot compete. This accounts for the increasing scale of all social systems and the equal loss of freedom. A progressive Libertarian would work to increase accountability of power and dilute scale.

[Example Perspective] Free minds. Free Markets. This perspective reflects the philosophy of Ayn Rand and Austrian Economics. We focus on issues of individual liberty and our rights to property.

After looking at the news of President Bush's wiretapping without FISA court warrants and the opening of private mail by the Homeland Security Department (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10740935/), it makes one wonder what kind of country are we finding ourselves in. Spying on American citizens in America is tantamount to the policies of the brown shirts in Germany in 1933. The interpretations of the executive branch over exactly what was voted on in the special resolution Congress passed post September 11, 2001 giving the president his option to use military force in Iraq are unfounded. Congress was not aware that the vote would also provide the President any authority to wiretap without warrants and otherwise abrogate or sidestep the FISA Act. Even though Congress unwisely abdicated their authority to authorize war in Iraq (and the U.S. and our soldiers are dearly paying for that cowardly legislative decision) they did not also intend to specifically allow the Bush Administration to sanction wiretaps on Americans within America without judicial review. The rationale that the President has put forward as justifications for his actions in spite of the FISA Act requirements are not persuasive. Even if his actions arose from capture of computers from Al-Queda operatives with many telephone numbers included in their data drives, the FISA court protections can and should still stand as the only acceptable means of wiretapping. It is questionable whether the President's repeated sanctioning of warrentless wiretaps over the period of several years are really related to capture of multiple Al-Queda databanks. The President has clearly stepped over the line, the rule of law must be enforced. The Administration broke the law and ruled the will of Congress null and void.

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