Just Because the Stormtroopers Aren't Kicking Down Your Door (yet) Doesn't Mean You're Free...

Flopping Aces ^ | 09-16-21 | Vince

[Starman417]

Unconstitutional vax mandates have given Americans a glimpse into the control the government has – or thinks they have over our lives.  But have no idea how much the government is involved with their everyday lives.  Most of us get up, go to work and come home without the government ostensibly telling us when to do this or what we have to feed our kids for dinner or when we have to go to bed.  We think we’re free, but we’re not.  Just because storm troopers aren’t standing in every doorway of your house doesn’t mean the government’s not there… they are, in a million different ways, invisible by design, and often the storm troopers are implied.

Not sure?  Let’s take a journey of a day in the life of a typical American.

You wake up at 5:00.  You’re literally laying on the embodiment of one of the most famous government rules, your mattress.  The government footprint is found on the tag that famously says:  “This tag may not be removed under penalty of law except by the consumer.”

You have a headache and go to the medicine cabinet.  There you’ll find the fruit of one of the most regulated industries in the economy, medicines.  Have you ever wondered why when you pick up a prescription you get a mini newspaper of information?  Have you ever wondered why it takes boxes the size of sandwiches to hold medicines the size of thimbles?  It’s because of the information manufacturers have to print on the boxes or on the tiny books inside the boxes telling you about every single thing that might ever happen as it relates to that medicine, no matter how rare or unlikely.  Of course in order to get an encyclopedia’s worth of information there they print so small that no one could read it, even if they wanted to.  And to that they add more online.  This is of course all driven primarily by government regulation and secondarily by manufacturers seeking to insulate themselves from lawsuits…

Now you head down to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. You open the refrigerator, which still has one of those mandated yellow stickers telling you how much energy it uses, and grab your pasteurized milk because unpasteurized milk is illegal in half the states and heavily regulated in most. Then you grab a box of cereal and read the required “Nutritional information” on the side of the box because your paper hasn’t arrived yet.

After breakfast you head back upstairs to the bathroom and you use the toilet that you have to flush twice because federal regulations limit how much water each flush can use and then jump into the shower and feel like you’re in a Seinfeld episode because the manufacturer wanted their showheads to have the EPA’s “WaterSense” designation.  From there you use toothpaste, antiperspirant and hair gel, all of which have differing levels of government regulation.

Now you get dressed.  Unless you’re wearing a your birthday suit to work, virtually every single piece of clothing you put on will be regulated in one or more of a spectrum of ways, from labeling, sourcing, content and of course advertising.

Dressed to kill and ready to take on the world you emerge from the morning’s regulatory morass into one of the most regulated parts of our everyday life:  cars.  Of course everyone knows about CAFÉ standards which regulate the MPG a manufacturer’s fleet much attain, but there’s so much more, covering virtually every single piece of the thousands of pieces that go into every car; wire harnesses, windshield wipers, head lights, seat belts, air bags, brakes, brake lights, door locks, trunk escape handles, plus things like pollution emissions, door strength, union regulations, nation of origin labeling, steel trade policy, and more.  And that’s before you even get on the road.  Once on the road most laws are state and local, although one of the few good things Jimmy Carter ever did – although of dubious constitutionality – was to make Right Turn on Red the default rule from sea to shining sea. There are laws about child seats, tinted windows, fog lights, not to mention the countless laws about virtually every aspect of actually operating a vehicle itself, starting with getting and maintaining a license and insurance.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Ha, he missed one of the most intrusive things. You wake at 5:00 am and flip on the government-mandated LED light in your bedroom.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Just getting up and driving to work is nearly impossible without breaking some law somewhere.

[Huskrrrr]

The only reason this is not happening? Guns.

[EasySt]

I like his last bit:

“Freedom, like the Grand Canyon, is not carved away in an instant, it’s
carved away grain by grain and inch by inch, so slowly that one never
notices, until one day you open your eyes and there’s a giant canyon
where American liberty used to stand. The difference is, that which went
missing in the desert created a majesty that is the Grand Canyon while
that which has gone missing from your Constitutional freedoms created a
wasteland of coercion, corruption and complacency that is rapidly turning
what was once the greatest nation on earth into a dystopian third world
cesspool.“

[EQAndyBuzz]

“You wake at 5:00 am and flip on the government-mandated LED light in your bedroom.”

The government actually turns on the LED light. And at night turns it off. Same with the thermostat. That’s why I have no smart appliances in my home.

[unixfox]

And the most important...

See tagline.

[Psalm 73]

"The only reason this is not happening? Guns."

Roger that

As I was reading the narrative I thought they forgot the part where we clean our weapons on the dining room table, sans Gub-mint.

[spincaster]

I know how much and i don’t like it! I do what i can at the polls and vote always but that doesn’t seem to be working. When they finally come to my property and my little piece of 5 generation family owned land . I will give them everything they want and more ,much more than they bargained for.

[sauropod]

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