User:Rogue 9
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General Information
I choose to keep my name confidential most places online, and will do so here. I go by a few different aliases on the Internet, including Rogue 9, Renegade, and Renegade Paladin.
I am a student at Murray State University. My interests include playing music (music education being my major), biking, fishing, and water tubing, as well as more sedentary activities like engaging in debate both online and off, and playing real time strategy games as well as Dungeons & Dragons, in which I am quite fond of playing paladins, especially unusual multiclass combos thereof such as rogue/paladins. I operate a general discussion message board with a focus on gaming known as the Paladin's Domain, though it's all but defunct and abandoned now. I'd dearly love to change that, though.
Political Views
I am a political centrist, having views on different issues scattered far about the political spectrum. Some people have said that I am closest to being a classical liberal. To get as close to an accurate generalization as possible, I am generally speaking a foreign policy and fiscal conservative, and a social liberal. Despite my failure to commit to any "side" of the standard United States political order, I am an active member of Protest Warrior, a decision I took to help counter the impact of the radical left and the often socialist positions advocated during street protests.
Religious Views
I am a Christian and a member of the United Methodist Church, though many consider me a heretic. I am not heavily involved in religious activities beyond going to church on occasion.
Wikipedia-related interests
I am an amateur historian, specializing in American history leading up to the American Civil War. I also take great interest in Star Wars-related articles, as well as lesser interest in most other science fiction. I also have a lesser interest in political articles. You might see my edits in any of these topics.
Articles I'm working on or watching
Putting these here so I can get at them quickly.
January 20, 2005 counter-inaugural protest
September 24, 2005 anti-war protest
List of Forgotten Realms deities
Articles I've Created
Rogue's Rant
Where I scream and holler about things that suck.
The United Nations
The United Nations sucks. I'm sorry, let's face it. The whole mess is a bloated, incompetent bureaucracy that can't actually do it's job worth a damn... unless that job consists of picking the pockets of taxpayers the world over, but especially in the United States.
I'll be fair. The World Health Organization does it's job reasonably well, and I definitely support it's mission. But on global security? The UN is a sad, sad joke. The troops in the blue helmets didn't hit the ground in Darfur for years after the genocide there was widely known... and those grand world forces consisted of twelve men from Nepal. Either make the damned thing halfway effective or trim the fat.
Wikipedia "vote stuffing"
Okay, seriously. Why the hell do people refer to telling people about a vote on Wikipedia as vote stuffing? Are we to have secret elections comprising only the most ardent of deletionists that hang out at the AfD page looking for a chance to destroy other peoples' work? Telling people about an impending vote isn't vote stuffing, cheating, "subverting democracy," or anything else; it's simple fairness. If all Wikipedians are entitled to vote in any given AfD (as we theoretically are), then why is it wrong to inform people that such a vote is taking place when it might be of interest to them?
Random quotations
"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." -- John Stuart Mill
"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means you recognize his superiority to yourself." -- Joseph Sobran
"At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent." -– Joseph Sobran
"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program." -- Bob Wells
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means you recognize his superiority to yourself." -- Joseph Sobran
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and a finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee." -- Ezekiel 25:17 combined with a few other verses, from Pulp Fiction.
"The driving is like that of Jehu, son of Nimshi -- He drives like a madman." -- 2 Kings 9:20
"We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful." - Morgoth's Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien