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Friday, 19 November 2010

Just how much control are we willing to have forced upon us?

Posted on 06:49 by Unknown
It's been an interesting and truly scary news week in the "good old" U.S. of A. Think about this stuff folks:
  • A Democrat congressman in charge of the House Ways and Means Committee with jurisdiction over taxes gets reprimanded for not paying taxes
  • A judge is busted for buying drugs to use with a stripper
  • San Francisco banning circumcision and toys in Happy Meals
And, of course, TSA minions doing things like giving three year olds invasive searches (at the same time our own enemies are allowed through because profiling is "insensitive") ...I suppose these government employees don't care...after all, they have very little to lose in their work because TSA agents are apparently immune from prosecution.

...and now, this: The US Secretary of Transportaion Ray LaHood wants wants cars to include scrambling technology that would disable cell phone use by drivers and perhaps passengers. Wow...when it the control going to end! ?

What is the United States coming to!? I think most people know the answer. Unfortunately our priorities aren't straight because of one tremendous flaw in how we think and live.

When are we going to stand up as a country and tell our government not just no, but Hell No! on everything they're trying to push on us? Enough is enough...

Here's a good piece from a man who really understood what's going to sum this all up:
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -Thomas Jefferson
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