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Sanders, Trump, Clinton, Cruz: There's not a dime's worth of difference between them

2016-02-14T13:32:00.001-05:00

By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano Published February 11, 2016

What if all the remaining presidential candidates really want the same things? What if they all offer essentially the same ideas couched in different words? What if these primary races have become beauty pageants largely based on personality and advertising?

What if our system of governance is so deep into the fabric of big government in the second decade of the 21st century that all the presidential candidates really believe that most voters actually want the government to care for them?

What if all major candidates in both major political parties promise a federal government that can right any wrong, regulate any behavior, tax any event, solve any problem and borrow unlimited amounts of money?

What if today we are the victims of this borrowing and spending mentality begun by President Woodrow Wilson and followed by nearly all of his successors up to President Obama? What if all the candidates in the presidential primaries plan to continue this self-destructive process?

What if American military leaders have argued that the government’s debt is a greater threat to national security than is ISIS?

What if these issues -- genuine problems in contemporary America -- are not federal problems because they do not spring from areas of governance delegated by the Constitution to the federal government? What if health, safety, welfare and morality are the core of the states’ responsibilities and not the federal government’s?

What if all these candidates don’t care about the Constitution and its guarantees of personal freedom, its checks and balances, and its division of governmental powers, even though, before entering office, they will be required to take a solemn oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution?

What if the candidates all want to rearrange borders of countries in the Middle East using the American military? What if they all think they can use the blood of young Americans to force democratic governmental structures upon foreign peoples whose cultures have rejected repeatedly the concepts of majority rule, due process and natural rights over the course of a thousand years of religious
civil wars?

What if the candidates all fail to see that the more innocents we kill abroad, the more we use force to tell others how to live, the more harm comes to us -- to our people, to our culture and to our freedoms?

What if all the candidates for president favor the government using torture, detaining persons without trial, continuous surveillance of all the telephone calls, emails, and text messages of all persons in America -- even though these behaviors are profoundly unconstitutional, morally un-American, uniquely destructive of personal liberty in a free society and fail to enhance public safety?

What if all these candidates -- in differing degrees -- reject the concept of limited government? What if they all want to bribe the rich with bailouts and the middle class with tax breaks and the poor with welfare? What if these candidates and their supporters and their attitudes about the role of government in our lives have reduced government at this sad time in our history to a game whereby everyone tries to live at someone else’s expense?

What if none of the candidates recognizes that government is an artificial creation based on force and ought to be exercised minimally? What if none of them understands that prosperity comes from the free choices of investors, workers and consumers, and not from the decisions of the federal government’s central planners?

What if none of these current candidates acknowledges that individuals are sovereign, our rights are inalienable, our property belongs to us, our souls are immortal, and that the government works for us -- not the other way around?

What ever happened to the right to be left alone? Where is a candidate who will defend it? What are lovers of liberty to do?

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Andrew P. Napolitano, a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel.

More Unlawful Presidential Killing

2014-09-18T09:41:00.003-04:00

By Judge Andrew Napolitano - Published on Sep 17, 2014

"On Monday of last week, the White House announced that in its pursuit of ISIS, the U.S. will go wherever it finds ISIS targets, and if ISIS hides in Syria and the government of Syria does not permit U.S. jets to use its airspace, the U.S. will attack Syria. That sounds like Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine.

Attacking Syria because its government denied the U.S. airspace would be an unprovoked and unlawful act of war that would probably provoke Putin. Congress rejected declaring war on Syria just a year ago. If it does so now, there would be no lawful or moral basis for such a declaration, as Syria is a sovereign country, lawfully entitled to control its airspace, that poses no present threat to American freedom or security. The U.S. can no more legally commandeer Syrian airspace than Syria can commandeer ours.

Something is amiss here. Last year the president wanted to help ISIS indirectly by degrading the Syrian military. Now he wants to help Syria indirectly by degrading ISIS, but only if Syria stays out of our way. And he is prepared to violate the Constitution, break the law and lie to the American people to achieve his purposes.

Why all the unlawfulness, when he could and should leave these disputants to their own devices and keep the American military at home for genuine defensive purposes?" ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano

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Understanding Free Speech, the 1st Amendment and Wiki-Leaks

2010-12-06T22:34:00.001-05:00

Fox's Judge Andrew Napolitano discusses why the government doesn’t have a right to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for releasing government documents.

The Constitution says:

The First Amendment protects Assange's free speech and freedom of the media, therefore the release of the documents by media is legal.

The 5th Amendment protects Assange from abuse of government authority in a legal procedure and 'due process' in court before they can take his life, liberty or property.

Therefore, the US government can't act like the Mafioso and harass Assange or bully his business partners as they did with his server host Amazon.com and his funding partner paypal.com.

We might not like what Assange is doing, but what the government is doing is more disgusting and if we allow them to violate his 1st and 5th amendment rights, then will we let them violate ours. And mark my words, if we let him violate his, then they will violate ours.

Read the leaked documents here: Wikileaks Archives

Freedom Watch December 2nd Part 1 Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve

2010-12-03T13:16:00.000-05:00

Ron Paul: We're Supposed to Be a Country of Truth

Watch the video below as Representative Ron Paul speaks on his push for more transparency from the Privately owned Federal Reserve Bank on Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano.

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Government Infringements on Freedom

2010-08-10T14:24:00.000-04:00

August 9, 2010 Episode

Judge Andrew Napolitano lists the government’s latest intrusions into individual liberty.

Judge Napolitano, Neil Cavuto on Freedom Watch

2010-08-10T14:12:00.000-04:00

August 9, 2010 Episode

FBN's Judge Andrew Napolitano and Neil Cavuto on risk, reform, government intervention, and big government institutions and how they infringe on individual liberties.

Wikileaks, Freedom of Press, and National Security

2010-08-10T14:03:00.000-04:00

August 9, 2010 Episode

Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol takes on the Wikileaks scandal and its implications on the freedom of press and national security.

The Bailout Battle

2010-08-10T13:58:00.000-04:00

August 9, 2010 Episode

Backlash mounts to new $26 billion giveaway for Medicaid programs and teachers.

Naked Truth on Body Scanners

2010-08-10T13:14:00.000-04:00

August 9, 2010 Episode

Judge Andrew Napolitano questions if Americans still want their privacy in light of TSA screening practices.

Virgina Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli on Health Care, Freedom

2010-08-09T14:41:00.000-04:00

August 7, 2010 Episode

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli on whether individual liberty can be reconciled with 'Obamacare'.

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Check Out the Latest Episodes of Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitan

2010-06-09T23:08:00.000-04:00

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Freedom Watch w/ Judge Napolitano October 21st, 2009

2009-10-21T19:00:00.000-04:00

Segment One
Ron Paul - Fed Reversal
'Audit the Fed' bill gets watered down

Segment Two
Round Table - Andy Levy, Cody Willard, Jesse Kelly
Panel on GOP's direction and White House attack on Fox News

Segment Three
Cold, Hard Truth - Peter Schiff
Truth on the economy