"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Barry Goldwater
“As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that’s going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought.”
The fact that Governor Christie was appointed as a federal prosecutor by the incompetent President George W. Bush whose administration was infested with radical Trotskyite war criminals indicated that Christie was likely not a champion of civil liberties. This anti-liberty hissy fit verified it. The idea of liberty is always dangerous to tyrants. It was dangerous to King George in the 1770s and it is equally dangerous to President Obama now.
Christie has dismissed the current privacy/national security debate as "esoteric." What precisely is it about the issue that makes it only understandable by a small circle of elites? The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution is anything but esoteric. Its language is so straightforward that anyone can understand it.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
In order to violate the privacy of a person by conducting a search, the government must get a warrant. Why is that esoteric? What is it that Governor Christie finds so difficult about the concept?
Governor Christie (like his fellow RINO Rudy Giuliani) also fetishizes 9/11 and uses the emotionality that the tragic terrorist event produces as a sledgehammer to smash dissent. "I think what we as a country have to decide is: Do we have amnesia? Because I don’t,” Christie said. “And I remember what we felt like on Sept. 12, 2001."
How did we feel on September 12, 2001? Shocked, frightened, and angry. But we still had our natural right to privacy protected by the Fourth Amendment. Why does Governor Christie believe that the American people should lose their right to privacy because terrorists attacked the United States and incompetent politicians and federal agents failed to stop it? Why should innocent Americans be punished for the crimes of others? A Stasi police state was not necessary to prevent the 9/11 attacks. Due diligence on the part of the Bush administration and the FBI would have nipped the hijacking plot in the bud. So why is a police state necessary now?
Like most RINOs, Governor Christie personifies an unhealthy kind of bipartisanship. For example, Christie publicly admires the fascistic policies that both President Bush and President Obama have employed in waging their bogus War on Terror.
“I want to say that I think both the way President Bush conducted himself and the way President Obama has conducted himself in the main on those types of decisions hasn’t been different because they were right and because we haven’t had another one of those attacks that cost thousands and thousands of lives."
Governor Christie believes that another attack like those on 9/11 has not occurred because of the fascistic police state that has developed as a result of the USA PATRIOT Act and related legislation. A much simpler and better explanation is that there are simply not that many terrorists in the United States and that a deadly large scale terrorist attack is very difficult to carry out.
The mainstream media has demonized the Tea Party and the libertarian wing of the Republican Party in recent years for dissenting against the economic and national security tyranny of the Obama administration. Obstructionism is condemned even when it is the result of standing up for liberty. Bipartisanship is praised even when it involves a cooperative effort to shred the Constitution.
If Governor Christie is the future of the GOP, then the era of the blue/red divide in American politics may come to an end. The "do nothing" Congress will become energized and accomplish great feats of bipartisanship. However, this bipartisan cooperation will lead to an even more oppressive police state where the NSA, FBI, and CIA violate the privacy of Americans in ways that the East German Stasi could not even have imagined.
Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton and two sides of the same oppressive collectivist coin. If Governor Christie becomes the GOP standard bearer in 2016, then there is very little point in even holding a presidential election.
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