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« on: December 09, 2010, 11:51:13 AM »

1. Should the government should prohibit gun ownership by private citizens? Yes. The government has every right to regulate arms and if they so wish, prohibit gun ownership
 
2. Should Marijuana should be legalized? Yes

3. Should the death penalty be abolished? Yes

4. Should the government control, regulate, and ban video games, including banning video game sales to teens? No

5. Should we pull our troops out of Afghanistan? As soon as we reasonably can

6. Should abortion be legal or illegal? Legal

7. Should stem cell research be legal? Legal

8. Should criminals who sexually assault and/or rape children under the age of 13 be killed, castrated, chemically castrated, or simply imprisoned and registered as a sex offender? Imprisoned, registered as a sex offender. Castration does nothing to neutralise the psyhcological condition of the offender; there is some concern that castration of any sort could lead to sexual assaults being replaced by more violent physical assaults and murder.

9. Should the police get money directly from tickets or should ticket money be put in with other government spending? The government funds the police. The government regulates tickets. The government gets the money.

10. Should the police have a monthly/weekly quota of tickets that they must meet? No

11. Should we stop Iran's nuclear weapons program? If we can.

12. Should we liberate North Korea and install a peaceful democratic government? It will fall apart by itself

13. Should the government give money to failing businesses in order to keep them from going bankrupt? Only if their is an exceptional need to do so.

14. Should the government control the economy (command economy), should the government never intervene in the economy (laissez-faire), or should the government intervene in the economy only when it is necessary (mixed economy)? It has to be mixed. It always has been mixed

15. Should lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals be given equal rights as straight individuals? Yes

16. Should we pull our forces out of Iraq? Yes

17. Should gay marriage be legalized? Yes

18. Should we recognize the independent nation of Kosovo? Yes

19. Should we recognize the independent nation of Azerbaijan? Yes; they have been an independent state since 1991 and are a member of the UN,

20. Should we recognize the independent nation of Jonathanland? Only if you have oil Wink

21. Should we recognize the independent nation of South Ossetia? They have to make their case

22. Should Puerto Rico become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory? It is up to the people who live there.

23. Should Guam become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory? See above

24. Should American Samoa become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory? Ditto

25. Should the US Virgin Islands become a US state, become and independent country, or remain a US territory? Ditto

26. Should the US Minor Outlying Islands become US states, become and independent countries, or remain US territories? And ditto

27. Should we make Iraq a US state? That's ridiculous

28. Should we make Afghanistan a US state? And that

29. Do you think WikiLeaks should get shutdown? It's up to the service provider or host network. Unless it can run itself.

30. Should the government minimize it's military spending? Yes

31. Should the government make stronger efforts to stop illegal immigration, especially from Mexico? It can't stop it. It can only mitigate it's effects.

32. Should citizens of the District of Columbia be granted full voting rights? Absolutely

33. Should New York City become it's own state, an independent country, or remain part of New York? That is up to New Yorkers

34. Should the United States create a North American Union with Canada? If so should we allow Mexico to join? Why should the initiative for such a union come from the USA? In any event it is up to each nation what they wish to do

35. Should the government censor books, movies, and other entertainment mediums? No.

36. Should it be made illegal to deny that the Holocaust happened or to claim that the government is responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks? No. But expect to be mocked, heckled and hit with sticks.

37. Should the government offer free broadband internet to all citizens, like Finland does? No. Phones aren't free why should the internet be?

38. Should the government increase it's power to enforce internet laws and put a stop to internet crimes? No.

39. Should the government shutdown 4chan, just /b/, or neither? No

40. Should 13 year olds be given universal suffrage? No.

41. Should the drinking age be lowered to at least 18? Yes, in the USA. It should be lower than that too

42. Should church and state remain separate?  Yes.

43. Should we allow a mosque to be built next to Ground Zero? Absolutely.

44. Should the government offer free healthcare? As in tax payer funded? Yes.

45. Should the government offer free college/university education? No. It should make it as cheap as it can

46. Should tobacco be made illegal? No; but tax it heavily.

47. Should alcohol be made illegal again? No.

48. Should the government keep secrets from and lie to it's citizens? Yes. That's life folks.

49. Should classified and top secret documents be declassified? Only after a set time period.

50. Should the government take greater steps to promote political awareness among teens, so they know how to make better informed political decisions? Yes.

51. Should public schools bring back the ability to beat their students and force them to wear school uniforms? No to the first and yes to the second.

52. Should we allow weapons in space? No

53. Should the United States join the International Criminal Court? Yes.

54. Should the age of consent be lowered to 13? Yes; but consent only extended to those under 16 to have sex with those under 16. Which is a fudge I know as age of consent in itself is arbitary as everyones 'bits and pieces' develop at different times.

55. Should Julian Assange be tried in court for sexually assaulting (and raping) women and for releasing top secret government and military documents to the public? Yes to the first if he did it, yes to the second if he broke national or international law.

56. Should NASA work harder to accomplish goals such as making first contact, building space ships, and colonizing other planets? Yes

57. Should NASA set-up a colony on Mars using their proposed one-way trip system? Only if feasable

58. Should nuclear weapons be banned globally? Can't happen. It's here now. That would be like banning tanks, guns, battery rams and spears; once everyone has it you can't make everyone give it up,

59. Should nuclear power be actively used in the United States? Yes. It is safe and clean.

60. Should teenagers (from 13 to 19) be given the same rights and privileges as adults? At 16 yes.

61. Should we allow private military contractors to continue to exist? No.

62. Should the government and military work to help stop and prevent genocides, civil wars, and other atrocities happening around the world, such as in Africa? Yes; if it can.

63. Should research into cloning be conducted? Yes

64. Should we close the Guantanamo Bay prison? Yes

65. Should Guantanamo Bay become a US state? No; it remains a military base either way.

66. Should the United States become imperialist again, but this time we make the places we conquer become permanent US states? No.

67. Should the world unite under a democratic world government that is just like the United States, but governs the entire world? No.
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