Tyranny.

the longer I live the more tyranny I see.

When I see that the people that write and enact out laws are exempt from them that's tyranny. The first thing that comes to mind here is the fact that congress critters are exempt from insider trading laws. They can make fortunes investing in companies that get government contracts but if I find out about what companies Congress is giving a contract to and invest I go to jail. Ask Martha Stewart about that one.

Congress should be made to obey the laws they put on the rest of us. It's that simple.

We have drunk driving laws here and there are a few people that think it's stupid. Actually it really isn't. There are victims of drunk drivers. They kill people and damage property. I don't want to get into the argument with those that say it is OK to drive drunk. 

For sake of argument it isn't OK to drive when someone is incapacitated.  The key to this is driving drunk and on a public thoroughfare. 

Yet some poor bastard got a DUI for mowing his front lawn on a sit down mower. Another sad sack got popped for being responsible and sacking out on the back seat of his car. That's not liberty or justice. That's tyranny.

Laws are not supposed to generate revenue. Fines are supposed to punish honest anti social behavior.

As I sit here in the middle of a pandemic I can certainly understand that government is trying to protect us from the idiots out there that don't know any better and think it is all about them. I am not going to speak about shutting things down at all. What I am going to do is look at things from the proper perspective. Before you can outlaw a behavior it has to be dangerous.

There is nothing whatsoever dangerous about attending a drive in religious service where you sit there listening to the service electronically in your automobile with the windows rolled up. There is no danger at all to society. The participants have been issued $500 tickets. That's tyranny.

One state had forbidden its residents to go fishing. Fishing is generally a solo sport and takes a person outdoors where they will do themselves more good than hanging around inside. There is no way a person can spread or contract the disease while alone and fishing. Yet a governor had banned it. That's tyranny.

People in some places are being hassled for walking their dogs in suburban settings while creating no danger of spreading the disease. That's tyranny.

I won't even get into the tyranny taking place in Virginia over the Second Amendment. I see us sliding into a bad place in our history...and fast.













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