It really, really and truly bothers me.
They used smoking to get this foot in the totalitarian door.
Until mom and pop two-job suburbia realizes just what a world of chicken dung can come down on them from this, it will continue to advance.
I cut my finger pretty thoroughly when prying apart some slices of frozen roast beef one night. Drove the 25 miles to the ER I knew was open to get sewn up.
The doctor informed me that he had to inform the police because it was a knife wound.
I said "For a kitchen accident?"
"Yep. "
When the deputy arrived he asked me "What happened?"
I informed him, with suitable gravitas, that "The roast beef won." (after all, it was back in the fridge, relatively unmolested, and I was in the ER, hungry, and getting stitches in my finger.)
The look on his face was worth the price of the ER visit, the nurses got a kick out of it, and even the doctor was forced to admit it was a pretty dumb rule.
Unfortunately, the rule being "dumb" does not stop them.
As for the statists, I'll continue to speak out against them and their philosophies. Some will see the error of their ways, and the others will show their true colors.
If we are intimidated, they will win, because that is the entire thrust of their tactics, to intimidate us into compliance.
A good friend of mine and his wife have an 8 year old boy. He brought home a memo from his school (Frederick County, VA) informing them that the school is taking a ‘survey’ of students as part of a drug prevention program. They will be asking my friends son how much he knows about drugs and such.
The school is turning the kids into snitches and informers. It's scary.
The way to counter this is to teach your kids to tell the school if they have any questions about their parents or home life, then they should ask the parents.
Thanks for the ping.