Issue Position: Civil Liberties
Issue Position
Whether it's a Republican who wants the government to tell you who to love, or a Democrat who wants the government to look through your cell phone, the threat to our civil liberties needs to be stopped by a renewed appreciation for what it means to be free.
Our founding fathers established the 4th Amendment, for example, to prevent the government from snooping into our private lives without a warrant.
Yet today, we have a national government that spies on private communications, monitors your financial transactions, photographs your license plates, and even will track everything you do at a public library -- all without warrants or due process of law.
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld want to get the government out of your life. Out of your cell phone. Out of your bedroom. And back into the business of protecting your freedoms, not restricting them.
This is why Gary Johnson embraced marriage equality before many current Democratic leaders joined the parade. He was also the highest ranking official to call for an end to the drug war and start treating drug abuse like a disease instead of a crime.
His vice presidential running mate, Governor Bill Weld, was not only an early proponent of civil rights for gays and lesbians, he actually appointed the judge who wrote the opinion that established marriage equality as a matter of constitutional right. He is also an outspoken defender of a woman's right to choose, rather than allow the government to make such an important and personal decision for them.
Unlike Governors Johnson and Weld, those in power today are steadily eroding the personal freedoms that our government was established to protect.
Gary Johnson believes that people, not politicians, should make choices in their personal lives. Responsible adults should be free to marry whom they want, arm themselves if they want, and lead their personal lives as they see fit -- as long as they aren't harming anyone else in doing so.
Protect Privacy. Promote Freedom. Trust Liberty.
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