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October 18, 2016

The Blob

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Even just thirty years ago nobody seriously believed the government would monitor all our phone calls and drag people off to prison.
Nobody seriously believed that you could be arrested for how the dust blew off your property when you plowed a field or where you smoked. Nobody believed you could be fined or jailed for who you baked a cake for or didn't. And already by that time the federal government was far too vast. Now its even bigger, exponentially, like the Blob. Its eating everything. Word Around the Net: THE GROWING CANCER

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 18, 2016 3:34 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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My first 3 vehicles didn't even have seat belts. Now everybody is required to use them.

"...within the boundaries of (man-made) law."

Which is fake.

The only permanent answer is natural law.
Most people scoff at the notion, even as they see the fake version crumbling all around them.

They can't be saved, nor should they.

Posted by: ghostsniper at October 18, 2016 6:19 PM

Well, as far as government-mandated seat belts and speed limits go, how many innocent lives have been saved due to their use? Yes, some loss of personal freedom is the trade-off.
Would we want it otherwise?
On the other hand, setting mpg standards without setting adequate impact protection in (lighter weight, especially) cars is mandating murder.

Posted by: Howard Nelson at October 18, 2016 8:12 PM

Yes, of course, if it saves ONE childs life.

And yes, I would want it otherwise.

I rarely wear a seatbelt and as far as I can tell not doing so has not killed me or anybody else.

If I'm going to be going 80mph on the interstate then *I* might decide to wear one. Nobody gets to make decisions for me just because.

FWIW, 15 years ago my 70 yo mother was slammed into a 32 day coma by a mandatory airbag explosion in a parking lot. But I read somewhere one time an airbag saved a childs life, I think, but the childs parents had to make 6 additional payments on the car because of that mandatory safeguard and then 6 more payments to reconstitute that alleged life saver.

Posted by: ghostsniper at October 19, 2016 4:14 AM

Howard, how about you make these decisions for yourself. If the car is a tin box, don't buy it. Wear or don't wear the belt. Make YOUR government happy. Why they might ever invite you up to the WH for that big gold medal that says, "My,my, what a good boy you are."

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at October 19, 2016 4:40 AM

One bright cold winter morning a few years ago I was driving along in my truck and although I was only going around 40 mph I hit black ice, my truck spun in a quick 90 degree turn, left and right, and then it plunged down a river bank, hit a log, flipped over and came to rest upside down.

I immediately turned off the engine and the only scratch I received occurred when, while hanging upside down in my seat, I released my seat belt and nicked my knuckle on broken glass from my windshield as I fell into the roof of my truck.

I've also been on the scene of accidents where bodies, who were obviously not wearing seat belts, were lying around like discarded paper so I have an affinity for them.

But the other stuff the government mandates does bother me, especially when it's idiocy is directed at the man on the street. Politicians and others who wish to rule are little more than gang leaders and it is they we should watch and guard against.

Posted by: Jack at October 19, 2016 6:37 AM

If any person of reason truly understood the intrusion of our now monstrous government on our liberties of late, he would have nightmares and cry out each night, - "Stop, my God please stop this outrageous insanity".

I believe this ever increasing list of oppressive laws, regulations and PC bullshit would fill the books of a big city library in small print.

And yet the progressives are so proud to tell us that there are, at present, 23 million (and rapidly increasing) government workers, mostly doing nothing but making our businesses and lives nearly unmanageable and driving our economy into unrecoverable indebtedness.

Posted by: Denny at October 19, 2016 8:22 AM

1 Samuel 8:11-18

11 And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots. 12 He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers. 14 And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants. 16 And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants. 18 And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in that day.”

Posted by: Denny at October 19, 2016 8:47 AM

Denny,

"He will take a tenth..."? That's old timey stuff.

In reality, she will take much more than half.

But that still will not be enough. Not nearly enough...

Because it's never enough for the thieves running this racket.

Posted by: Smokey at October 19, 2016 7:56 PM

OK Smokey, but I think you've missed something here. These verses are not just about a 10% taxation, but about the use of human resources (sons and daughters) for the sole benefit of the political ends of a powerful King. These huge resources would normally, in a free society and market, be used for the general benefit and prosperity of the populace instead of the King's pleasure.

And please don't forget one of the last warnings, "And you will be his servants".

Posted by: Denny at October 20, 2016 4:14 AM

This surfeit of laws and regulations is bringing about in the people a general contempt for the law, particularly in conjunction with the abuse of having those laws applied only to the middle class of people.
What the ruling class and their agents have forgotten is that there are not enough police in the world to make people obey the laws once they have grown contemptuous of them.
People keep the law because they believe that keeping them is a good in and of itself and once contempt sets in, well, say goodbye to civilization.

Posted by: Speller at October 21, 2016 10:55 AM

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