principles

Bob Newland for Governor

The purpose of government is to protect and defend our rights to do business with each other.

When it does something else, it becomes tyrannical.

We all commit business. All the time.

Government often treats committing business as a crime.

Let's help make government act more justifiably,

and thus both it and we will be able to justify its actions.
A Basic Statement of Principles
Every person owns himself or herself. We are not the property of "government". We are each born with the right to attempt to achieve liberty and happiness as we define those terms -- as long as we don't violate others' rights.
Government exists only to protect our rights to achieve liberty and happiness. This includes the right to cut consensual, voluntary deals with other parties--the free market, which encompasses almost everything people do.
No one--neither a mugger nor a group of suits in some capitol building--NO ONE has the right to initiate force or fraud to further personal or political goals.
A crime can only exist when someone (or a group of people) hurts someone else through force or fraud, or through gross or malicious negligence.
We must reverse the tendency of government to create crimes out of whole cloth, and thus to gain legitimacy in its endless attempts to garner authority over aspects of our lives wherein it has no legitimate function.

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Bob Newland for Governor
The purpose of government is to protect and defend our rights to do business with each other. When it does something else, it becomes tyrannical. We all commit business. All the time. Government often treats committing business as a crime. Let's help make government act more justifiably, and thus both it and we will be able to justify its actions.