Should government be in the business of dictating morals?

The idea of personal liberty is a foreign concept for the majority of Americans on the left and right. The only difference between the two is the direction and the degree that their respective policies use coercion and "laws" to get the chosen agenda's across. The talk on the left of a forced national healthcare system (their calling it insurance now) is one example. Or, the rights "War on Drugs", started by Sean Hannity's messiah Ronald Reagan, is another.

The original intent of the Constitutional Republic,not a democracy (sorry high school civics teachers) in the United States was to ensure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (property). Different people have vastly different ideas on what this right entails. They are different to the extent that each individual has their own opinion on what is moral. So long as this opinion does not interfere with anyone else's life, liberty, or property, no outsiders (politicians included) have a right to dictate whether that person is right or wrong, thru laws or any other means. Included in the right to property are private documents, something President's Bush and Obama forgot (or never knew). Bush had his "patriot act" and Obama now has the personal health records of every American, in a "secure" database of course. When will the "R's" and "D's" learn that the citizens are not to be taken advantage of, even if they claim its for the common good?

This is where a free society trumps any sort of coercive society, because in a free society each individual chooses what he/she views as proper for themselves. There is no need for a person in Washington D.C. to tell them what is good or bad. Decisions have consequences, and in a free society the individual has a right to learn from those consequences. Until American's realize the true nature of a free society we are doomed to repeat the cyclical republican/democrat view of how this nation should be i.e. imposing morality on others.