Message #11275

[djpcps]

Have you read a short essay called "The Death of Common Sense"?  You'll find it in the Humor Forum, but it's not funny.  Once society jumped on the bandwagon of "if it only saves one life", our freedom has diminished step by step.  All it takes is for a special interest group to lobby legislators on an issue that makes them sound tough on crime, or gives them a sound bite to show how they care about children - they take it and run with it, bartering among themselves for support.  One may put aside his reservations about infringing on liberty in the name of getting support for his own pet project.  One could trade support for a Dr. Seuss memorial for a vote for a bill that allows police to use infrared devices to scan the outside of your house.  Each politician is out to bring back as much government money (our money) to his constituents as he possibly can.  Supporting some of these freedom robbing bills is the price of getting his voters what they want.  



America was founded on the rights of each person to live as they please as long as it doesn't infringe on the rights of another - to cause no harm to the person or property of another.  That's why I've turned into such a political person - to try and wake up some more people like myself who have gone about their business, paying little notice, because it didn't affect me personally.  Something I read once stuck in my mind - it was about Nazi Germany and how they came for one group of people after another but he didn't speak up for them because it didn't affect him - until they came for him and there was no one left to speak for him.