Nanny staters love restraint

Calgary Sun ^ | 2010-07-25 | Ian Robinson

[Clive]

I know all the big government-loving sheep out there are going to assume this is being written by a guy who only thinks about current events when he’s not busy cleaning his shotgun on the kitchen table next to a bucket full of carburetor parts soaking in gasoline.

While puffing on a Marlboro.

And while he’s cleaning his shotgun, he’s idly fantasizing about Sarah Palin and thinking he’s gotta swing by the Wal-Mart to get some lice shampoo for the three children he sired with his first cousin, Lurlene.

While he’s at it, maybe pick up some more of them pink, plastic lawn flamingos to go outside the old doublewide.

Or, as one Sun columnist called folks like me: Selfish, short-sighted, ignorant, small-brained conspiracy theorists who believe the state is evil.

Note to lefties: The part where I described smoking next to a bucket of gasoline?

Don’t get your hopes up. Haven’t done that in years.

The reason the nanny state totalitarians are in full-throated yap is because the federal government decided to shift its weight a little where their boot rests on your throat.

They took just a bit of the pressure off, but those nanny staters just love to be restrained, kind of like the sickos who wear leather masks with the mouths zippered shut.

Submission soothes them. Freedom scares them half to death.

Anyway, the feds decided they were going to quit threatening people with the full power of the bully state if they objected to filling out census forms.

The problem with census forms is the evil uses to which they’re put.

The government wants to know what colour you are, what God you worship, asks questions about who does housework and looks after the kids and what your health is like, not to mention details of your personal finances.

And then they try to socially engineer a society that’s to their liking based on that data. Not your liking. Their liking.

Proponents of the mandatory census claim that — horror of horrors — without reams of data, government won’t be able to implement long-term plans in a variety of areas. Because, you know, five-year plans devised by central governments always work out so well.

Without census data, the nanny staters direly predict, things will go wrong.

What they don’t get is that those anachronistic idiots who believe in personal freedom and responsibility think things have already gone terribly, terribly wrong. If we can contrive to throw a monkey wrench into most anything government has planned, we’re standing in line to see who gets to throw it.

We want less government. We certainly want less planning because the more these creatures plan, the less money we have in our pockets to spend on stuff we actually want.

A lot of us never signed up for the degree of insane intrusion that is part of everyday life in this country — an intrusion partly fuelled by census data.

We never expected to see once self-respecting nation states teetering on the edge of bankruptcy — and threatening to bring us all down — because the cancer of big government is sucking so much money from their productive minorities that their economies are imploding.

Filling out a census form has been described as an act of social responsibility and it may well be ... if it’s voluntary.

What the sheep don’t get is that it’s also an act of social responsibility to extend your middle finger to government.

It never hurts to remind these leeches they work for us ... not the other way around. And without allegiance to that bedrock principle, we’re nothing but serfs.

And that’s a principle a trifle more important than permitting the government to threaten you if you don’t fill out a form.

We only have to look at the egregious violence perpetrated on peaceful demonstrators by the armed bullyboys of this nanny state at the G20 conference in Toronto to know that government is not necessarily a benign force in Canadian affairs.

Government is indeed a necessary evil ... but unfortunately we’re living in a society that has forgotten the second part of the equation.

[Clive]

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[SunkenCiv]

The reason the nanny state totalitarians are in full-throated yap is because the federal government decided to shift its weight a little where their boot rests on your throat... Submission soothes them. Freedom scares them half to death. Anyway, the feds decided they were going to quit threatening people with the full power of the bully state if they objected to filling out census forms.

[Dudoight]

Excellent!

[Nip]

The great dark secret of the 20th Century is this:

All of the deaths outside of war were legal. that is they were in compliance of their respect states when the event occurred. They were all legally justified.

The American Revolution started because the state, in the form of King George, legally justified everything done in the Colonies. The justification frequently included terms saying it was only fare that, and it was for their own good. Without a voice in the decisions — the the rest they say is history.

We have returned to those very days again but this time it is both internally and externally driven. In both cases this is being pushed by scared individuals. They are scared for themselves and their children because they know that they are unable to thrive in such a competitive environment. Their lives would so much easier if the rest of us would stop trying to live our lives and improve ourselves (they could go to fancy balls and not worry about wearing the wrong clothes,...).

Taken on the balance change has benefited mankind. Or, do you prefer fighting it out with wild animals, fang to tooth, on the Velt?

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