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Making bad guys
Posted by Heather on January 9th, 2007
It’s a cold night, and I stand by the side of the road, shivering and watching. A car pulls over, and a window rolls down. “Let’s see the money,” a voice demands.
I pull out a wad of bills, and the driver takes it. After a moment, he hands me the goods. “My God,” I say, “they’re still warm.” I reach inside the bag and remove a small handful, shoving it into my mouth. There’s a quick rush of heat, salt, and an unctuous blend of crispiness and oil. “Ahhh,” I moan, barely able to control myself.
Suddenly there’s a fl ash of lights. There are sirens and rushing bodies, and I’m thrown to the ground, my arms twisted behind my back, cold steel laced around my wrists.
“You’re under arrest,” a voice screams in my ear. “Just couldn’t keep away from those trans-fatty fries, could you? Well, this time, buddy, you’re gonna pay.”
Read the rest of this and tell me what you think. I agree with this assessment of where society is heading. We make more work for ourselves; we create needless laws and regulation, and criminals, I say.
January 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
I have been saying it all along. We are headed down a road that leads to socialism and then to communism. The american people have NO IDEA what they are doing in setting precedent
January 10th, 2007 at 2:09 am
I think many do… they WANT govt control… brainwashed into thinking they cant do for themselves. bleh. Pass the fries.
January 10th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
An interesting observation I made when discussing this potential problem on IRC:
Conservatives blamed liberals.
Liberals blamed conservatives.
Each of them pointed to things that the *other* wants (or is percieved to want) banned as an example of a government prohibition getting out of control – while defending their own bans as absolutly essential for the good of society.
Liberals mainy support bans in the interest of public health – recreational drugs, smoking, extremally unhealthy food, dangerous activities. Conservatives usual line was morality or public decency for their bans on recreational drugs (different reason, same conclusion), pornography, prostitution, sexually-themed entertainment…
And both said that the others were calling for a nanny-state or inviting oppression :>
It wasn’t in the discussion, but I think there is a similar situation in regards to freedom of speech. Both liberals and conservatives support it, but they manage to somehow justify exceptions in various places. The locations of the exceptions differ, so both sides point to these holes as proof that the other do not really support freedom of speech, while ignoring their own excuses. For the liberals, the big excuses are political correctness and avoiding offence. For conservatives, the big excuses are all to do with sex. Both of them tend to say that what they would want to restrict isn’t really speech.