John Buckley on Homeland Security

	John Buckley on Homeland Security

Supports smaller & less expensive military

Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Expand the military"?

A: Oppose. I favor a stronger, smaller, less expensive military, but whatever is necessary to ensure the security of the United States.

Source: Email interview on 2014 W.V. Senate race with OnTheIssues , Sep 5, 2014

National Defense Authorization Act is Big Brother spying

A government big enough to give you all the things you want is also big enough to take away from you all that you have. Whether the government is acting as Big Brother or as Big Nanny, it is a threat to our liberty, to our right to live our lives as we each see fit. There is a unifying thread to many issues of privacy and property rights: the National Security Agency's warrantless spying on phone calls, the authority affirmed by the National Defense Authorization Act to confine American citizens without Constitutional protection whatsoever--indefinitely!--on mere suspicion of "association" (whatever that means) with terrorism, law enforcement agencies tracing the movements of our automobiles, the increased militarization of domestic law enforcement: These actions reveal a government out of control, treating Americans as conquered subjects. It reminds one of the Hunger Games, where the "districts" had to be kept down lest they undermine the authority of the central government. Source: 2014 West Virginia Senate campaign website JohnBuckley.org , Aug 31, 2014

Opposes NSA spying & foreign policy meddling

While politics is usually portrayed as a contest of Republican v. Democrat, conservative v. liberal, red v. blue, that's narrow, old-fashioned thinking. It's "analog" politics in a digital age. I'm more "conservative" than the Republican candidate; and I'm also tackling issues like NSA spying, reduced foreign policy meddling around the world, and the failed "War on Drugs" that my Democrat opponent is apparently afraid to touch. Source: Charleston Daily Mail on 2014 West Virginia Senate race , Aug 12, 2014

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