3.0 Securing Liberty
The protection of individual rights is the only proper purpose of government. Government is constitutionally limited so as to prevent the infringement of individual rights by the government itself. The principle of non-initiation of force should guide the relationships between governments.
Discussion: The government is here for us. I think most of our founding fathers believed this. This is a no brainer for most Americans.
3.1 National Defense
We support the maintenance of a sufficient military to defend the United States against aggression. The United States should both avoid entangling alliances and abandon its attempts to act as policeman for the world. We oppose any form of compulsory national service.
Discussion: George Washington couldn't have said it better himself. He did not believe that we should be getting involved with the problems in other countries. Don't we have enough problems of our own?
3.2 Internal Security and Individual Rights
The defense of the country requires that we have adequate intelligence to detect and to counter threats to domestic security. This requirement must not take priority over maintaining the civil liberties of our citizens. The Constitution and Bill of Rights shall not be suspended even during time of war. Intelligence agencies that legitimately seek to preserve the security of the nation must be subject to oversight and transparency. We oppose the government's use of secret classifications to keep from the public information that it should have, especially that which shows that the government has violated the law.
Discussion: The government doesn't want us to know when they are breaking the law. I believe we have the right to know everything they are doing. If you look at what they have classified in the past you can see that they were not always kept secret for national security. That's just the line they like to give us. All they have to say is "National security" and everyone stops complaining about being lied to. I think the only way to take this control away from the government is to to do away with all top secret classification except for strategic military information.