[Gabz]

All the usual suspects PING.........

Anyone wanting on or off my smoking/nanny statist do-gooders ping list let me know.

[Gabz]

I don't remember if you are on my list, but thought you might be intereted in this........

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Love the name of your pinglist! Please add me. :)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Just A Nobody]

Thanks Gabz. I am pretty much nauseous by now.

Everything that you all are saying is correct, of course. Yes, it has to do with money. Yes, it has to do with taking personal rights and freedoms away.
However, these actions carry a far more sinister meaning, IMHO. These erosions of our freedoms are part of a far larger picture.

From the Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
(if this article is not about controlling big business, I don't know what is.)

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

Sorry, I am not good at incrementalism. Let's call the enemy what it is...socialism/communism.

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.