-By Warner Todd Huston
Dan Bongino is a former Secret Service Agent form Maryland who has a warning for the country: we are in more danger now than ever thanks to the failed Obama administration.
Bongino is running for Congress in Maryland’s 6th District (Dan Bongino’s campaign website) and appeared on Glenn Beck’s TV show on December 5 to talk about his race and the state of the country when he warned that the nation is going down the wrong path.
One of Mr. Bongino’s guiding principals is to base all his ideas for governing on whether or not those ideas are constitutional in the first place. That is the sort of novel thinking we need in Congress, don’t you think?
Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino.
But Bongino is sour on the growing police state in which we live and is ready to pare back the powers of the department of Homeland Security, the CIA and the NSA–or at least apply constitutional limits to their powers.
But whatever he’d do at some point were he to be elected to Congress, he is sure that we’ve lost many freedoms already. And even with the increase in security measures we are in more danger than ever.
“I think it’s actually more dangerous–the irony being that as we’ve expanded our surveillance safety net and become a literal surveillance state–this isn’t a movie anymore, it’s very real,” Bongino said.
“It’s bureaucratic laziness at its worst,” Bongino continued. “Instead of looking at common sense measures to combat a real threat going forward, we’re now blanket surveilling everyone, (who have) now become de facto criminals.”
Bongino also said that liberty is “a zero sum game.” Liberty, Bongino said, “can’t belong to you and the government at the same time.”
Folks, I’ve met with Mr. Bongino a dozen times over the last few years and I can’t think of a better candidate for Maryland’s 6th District. Bongino is a true American. If you are in Maryland or know someone who lives there, tell them about Dan Bongino.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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