We just spent the weekend at an outdoor music festival, complete with rustic camping. When we arrived, we were given a schedule of performances, a garbage bag and a notice that states:
"By order of the Minnesota Department of Health: Provide a separation distance of at least ten feet between the sides of adjacent recreational camping vehicles."
You know what I think? I think the Department of Health should stick to rat control in restaurants. I heard the other day there are a number of government agencies that have SWAT teams. Does that include the MN Dept. of Health? What are they going to do? Have uniformed officers start patrolling the thousands of campers at these festivals with tape measures and arrest people who are, say, NINE feet apart? I am so sick and tired of my government telling me what to do at every turn. Guess what? I don't have to. YOU WORK FOR ME. What kind of insanity is this? How's this: I'll take my chances at camping nine feet away from my neighbor and you go ahead and put your head on your pillow at night and don't worry about me, ok? I quit needing a mommy decades ago.
This nanny state is like a stealth enemy, much like many diseases. Unfortunately, it has gotten away from us so much that we cannot just take 2 pills and go lie down. We need to blast this thing with both barrels until it is nearly annihilated. I am not an anarchist at all--the end result of that is the same as an overbearing government--but it has reached the point I hope this leviathan gets beaten back just a bit too far. Then We the People can slowly work our way forward until we've re-established the proper role and VERY STRICT limitations of government.
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