Ron Paul is urging New Jersey residents to support Steve Lonegan’s gubernatorial campaign. Supporting Lonegan would be an error with potentially disastrous consequences for liberty.

You might remember Lonegan as the mayor who tried to have a McDonald’s sign changed to remove the Homeland-incorrect Spanish language.

Lonegan’s campaign website describes his position on people without proper paperwork:

There are close to 500,000 illegal aliens residing in New Jersey and that population causes additional strains on our schools, health care systems, economy, and way of life. To make matters worse, Jon Corzine has rolled out the red carpet and made New Jersey a magnet state for illegal aliens. It is our responsibility to reverse this course.

I object to providing drivers licenses to illegal aliens, and I will not permit illegal aliens to obtain the benefits of in-state college tuition rates.

New Jersey has also unfortunately seen the tragedies perpetrated by some who commit crimes after entering the state illegally. These crimes can range from petty theft to homicide, as we saw with the execution of promising young children in a Newark schoolyard. I oppose sanctuary cities and support the Federal 287(g) program that allows properly trained and supervised local law enforcement officials to help fight the ever growing problem of illegal immigration.

The campaign site also says:

A strong and prosperous government must be based upon those core fundamental rights that were firmly rooted in religious and family values.

The liberty of immigrants who lack government stamps is not something to be traded for promises of lower taxes and fewer gun laws. Especially when those promises are made by a nationalist politician who considers it a sacred duty to aim the guns of government by his religious values.

Considering that people have been killed in Immiration and Customs Enforcement custody, including detainees in New Jersey prisons, this isn’t some idle rant by a guy attached to the “purist” epithet. The freedom to move is a matter of life or death for certain individuals, and helping government kill is a terrible move for anyone concerned about freedom.

Are we to be accomplices to the violent confinement of innocent people to dire economic conditions? Are we to parade the sanctity of government gang turf or applaud the business of social control? Are we to ignore that border security is a major claim behind the United States police state, or are we to pretend that this is less important than property tax rates?

For those obsessed merely with establishment notions of practicality and keeping up good appearances, how will you look when you are found to be pushing state terrorism in the name of liberty?

And since institutionalized Christianity has led primarily to social and mental crucifixion of peaceable individuals who do not fit into orthodoxy, why put faith in someone who wants his religious and family values to govern you?

A lot of good people like Ron Paul and I hope they are not persuaded to trade liberty for the promises of a politician. If they are looking for things to do this campaign season, New Jersey Alliance of the Libertarian Left has a list, some theories, and some examples. Any activists available on May 19 are invited to meet with us.

Let’s work with each other for liberty, not for the political ambitions of statists.

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