Stripped-Down Grannies, Curly Bulbs, and What’s Next?
Mark Steyn wrote about the same TSA stories I noted over the weekend and his conclusion, well, I couldn’t have written better.
One reason we’re the Brokest Nation In History is because the great moronic security bureaucracy of the United States devotes untold resources to criminalizing the law-abiding – as I often have cause to reflect when being finger-printed and eyeball-scanned every time I fly back to the US from abroad. In my case, that’s because I’m a legal immigrant and making you feel like a punk who’s held up the liquor store is part of the price the bozo bureaucracy exacts for a Green Card. But why US citizens born and bred put up with this nonsense is another matter.
US airport “security” serves no serious purpose except to accustom free-born peoples to behaving like a compliant bovine herd. America is now a land where 85-year old grannies are strip-searched without probable cause. You’re extremely naive if you think that, once government acquires a taste for that, it will remain confined to the airport.
And so it has not. In less than a month, on January 1, your government is going to take some of your light bulbs away from you. First, you won’t be able to buy 100-watt incandescent bulbs, then go the 75-watt models. By January of 2014, Washington will take away even 40-watt bulbs. You’ll have to settle for compact fluorescent bulbs or terribly expensive LED bulbs. Mind you, consumers do not want these light bulbs. We did not ask to be shoved into buying them. We do not want the normal incandescent bulbs to go away. Many of us will be hoarding them.
But Congress, in its massive heaps of stupidity, has decided it knows what is best for us. So, starting next year, you lose another piece of our freedom — admittedly a small one — and the government intrudes just a little bit more into your daily affairs. Are you tired of being pushed around by your government yet? All the little indignities starting to become a bit too much? No?
Just wait. They will, and by then you might not have the power to take your life back. Today, it’s a TSA scanner and a couple government goons who strip grannie to her skivvies. Next year it’s something else. The year after that, well, let’s hope that the election in 2012 changes a couple things beyond who our President is. Let’s hope we scale Big Daddy Government back to something that serves us instead of the other way around.
Other Posts of Interest:
- The TSA: Keeping You Safe from Teenagers’ Purses and Little Old Ladies
- It’s Not a Death Panel If It’s Just One Person, Right?
- I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Change Your Oil
Category: The Rise of the Nanny State
Lightbulb repeal act will be greatly welcomed by the consumer and a good Day 1 activity for our new President.