Friday, February 16, 2007
SJM and Personal Liberties
RE: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/16675629.htm
Personal liberties are severely restricted by nanny-state bills. As a Democrat, I agree that safety is a priority worthy of individual sacrifice, such as hands-free cell phone bill proposed by Sen. Joe Simitian D- Palo Alto in 2006. This bill is based on research and statistics that demonstrate correlations between hand-held cell phones and vehicle accidents. Other bills, however, are ridiculous indicators of government intrusions on privacy and self-determination. Calorie content, shock pens possessed by minors, and smoking in cars? Lobby groups and legislators should stop creating bunkum policies that limit natural freedoms of businesses and individuals for no other reason than to displace the choices that guide their personal lives.
Courtney Hibbard
Pacific Grove
Personal liberties are severely restricted by nanny-state bills. As a Democrat, I agree that safety is a priority worthy of individual sacrifice, such as hands-free cell phone bill proposed by Sen. Joe Simitian D- Palo Alto in 2006. This bill is based on research and statistics that demonstrate correlations between hand-held cell phones and vehicle accidents. Other bills, however, are ridiculous indicators of government intrusions on privacy and self-determination. Calorie content, shock pens possessed by minors, and smoking in cars? Lobby groups and legislators should stop creating bunkum policies that limit natural freedoms of businesses and individuals for no other reason than to displace the choices that guide their personal lives.
Courtney Hibbard
Pacific Grove
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I am for more state intrusion in everything. Children should be taken from their parents at infancy and raised in state wards where they train, predominantly, for military service. They will be kept from reading poetry until later in their lives cause its inherently deceptive. We'll divide the society into a class of leaders, warriors, and merchants. The first will be drawn from the warrior class and will breed to reproduce the warrior and leadership classes. The merchants will be bred out of the population through sterilization procedures. At some point the weakest born of the warrior class will fall to merchant roles (to be determined at an early age for apprenticeships). The bulk of base productive labor will be carried out by a slave class whose status will be determined by martial conquest. There will be no "democracy," "liberty" or "privacy" (buzzwords of a weak, narcissistic and decadent people). In their place we will put greatness, power, and culture. Leadership changes will go to the greatest of the warrior class and if there is a dispute then it shall be decided by a civil war.
- Of course children should be taken from parents ("Brave New World" and "The Leader" - esque) OR WAIT - no kids at all - ("The Children of Men" until the stupid ending)
- Poetry is to be banished, unless it meeting the following conditions by elite GLOBAL POETS SOCIETY and is whimsical and rhymes
- No breeding - all are sterilized
- Yes for Darwinian survival - and less government
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- Poetry is to be banished, unless it meeting the following conditions by elite GLOBAL POETS SOCIETY and is whimsical and rhymes
- No breeding - all are sterilized
- Yes for Darwinian survival - and less government
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