Why We Must Resist The Statists

~or~ More News From The Place Where England Used To Be:

If you think it is pointless to push back every. single. time. someone comes up with another well-intentioned but somewhat intrusive power grab (like, say, monitoring every child's Body Mass Index with no (as yet) stated purpose?) consider what it is like in a place where they let the control freaks go a little too far, too many times.

Some children sniff glue to get high. So we ban sales of glues with solvents to minors. Then this 17 year-old gets a flat tire. He goes to buy a tire repair kit and the clerk refuses to sell it to him. The glue has solvents. He might sniff it. They tell him right to his face! His father is standing next to the "boy" and asks if he, the father, can buy the tube patch kit. No. The teenager might sniff the glue.

A man donates some fish to a hospital pond. He has a pond at his house also. The pond suddenly needs maintenance, and he takes the fish to his own pond without waiting 30 days to get the transfer approved. Now he's up on charges.

They don't know better than you how to run your life, but they would sure like to get the chance to do it!