Chief Tecumseh went to visit the cabin of a friend, finding the friend absent he decided to cook up a pot of meat. As he was preparing the meat he heard the door open slightly. He wondered what may have opened the door.
Being patient he waited to see what developed. Soon there was a nose and only a nose sticking through the doorway sniffing the aroma inside the cabin. Tecumseh had his suspicions but was still not sure who this encroaching friend could be and turned back around to stir his pot of meat. He thought to himself, “It is only smelling the aroma and not harming anything”.
Soon he heard the door move again and turned to see the head, only to the shoulders, of the neighborhood watch dog and protector eying the pot of meat. This time he yelled at the dog to go away only to turn a few minutes later and see the dog had returned and had now fully encroached into the cabin. He yelled at the dog again but it would not leave the cabin.
As he contemplated the event the dog had now encroached all the way up to his feet demanding a portion of the meal. Tecumseh now realized that the situation was a loss whether he shared some meat with the dog or not. He was now stuck with the dog for good until even the very smell of the meat was gone or until he did something very severe to chase the dog off.
As he shared his meal with the dog, he reviewed the event thinking about how the dog had slowly encroached into the cabin little by little as he, Tecumseh, had allowed it by just watching and waiting. The dog slowly forced his way in because there was no immediate protest and action against him pushing the door open to stick his sniffing nose into the cabin doorway.
Tecumseh learned something in this event and stated to himself “If I had only latched the door closed right away to keep the nose out, I would not have ended up with the whole dog.”
~ Condensed from the novel about the life of Chief Tecumseh “Panther in the sky” by James Alexander Thom. Great book with many more examples of Government encroachment.
See my #47. It is the Gun Rights Cake analogy - with specific references to particular gun laws over the last 84 years. It teaches the same lesson as Tecumsah learned the hard way with that dog.