The Agents of Liberty is a libertarian-conservative leaning political site started in June 2008.
Roark, now Thomas Aquinas, is the pseudonym of an 18 year-old soon-to-be college student, residing in Utah. He spent his former years a religiously motivated conservative. Though he still strongly holds his faith, he now considers himself a libertarian Republican.
His past and current investing ventures combined with his love of books of all kinds has made economics his strongest interest.
The points which he holds his strongest opinions, and in which tends to get in the most arguments are:
1. The US is not a Democracy, and a Democracy is an unbelievably bad government that tends to take away individual and property rights.
2. The 'rich' of this country pay a helluva lot more than their 'fair share' and their incentives for building wealth and the job creation that is usually the result is currently being taken away by ignorant or dishonest politicians pandering for votes.
3. Our Founders had a non-interventionist Foreign Policy and a living constitution may as well be a dead one (taken from Politically Incorrect Guide Author).
4. The War on Drugs is insane and has had negative consequences.
TJ Madison is part-time pundit who also works in the health care industry. A native of the Chicago area, he currently lives in the major-metropolis of Fond du Lac, WI. He took a keen eye to politics after discovering Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr.
TJ's 5-Step plan to save America:
1.Stop the direct taxation of the people. As insisted upon by our Founding Fathers.
2. Close Government schools. Pseudo-agents of the government should not be indoctrinating our most impressionable.
3. Impose term limits on Senators and Federal Judges. Power is seductive. Nothing more needs to be said.
4. Phase out all entitlements. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. Too many people are dependent on government and it must stop.
5. The Military should serve it's original Function. And when called upon, only the full force shall be released; not some 5-year 'low grade' war. It shouldn't have to fight with one hand tied behind it's back, not be a 'meals on wheels' or a democracy builder.
Agent Aquinas
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To contact the authors of the site for questions, comments or articles suggestions please e-mail us at: Agentsofliberty@gmail.com, alternatively TJ madison can be reached at 1776Republic@gmail.com and Roark at AgentRoark@gmail.com.
Quotes
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
- Fransisco D'Anconia
in Atlas Shrugged
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first thing to be bought and sold are the legislators.
- PJ O'Rourke
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
– Thomas Paine
"The most troubling aspect of social policy toward the poor in the late twentieth century America is not how much it cost, but what it has bought."
– Charles Murray
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
– Ronald Reagan
Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness; you can't paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
-William F. Buckley
The first thing (a conservative) has learned is that each member of a species is a unique creature. Man's most sacred possession is his individual soul -- which has an immortal side, but also a mortal one. The mortal side establishes his absolute differentness from every other human being.Only a Philosophy that takes into account the differences between men, and, accordingly, makes provision for developing the different potentialities of each man can claim to be in accord with nature. We have heard much in time about the "common man." It pays little attention to the history of a nation that grew great through the initiative and ambition of uncommon men. The conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
- Barry Goldwater
Let me give you a tip on men's characters: the man who damns money has earned it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
-Ayn Rand
