Friday, January 21, 2011

The First Test

Me, I think this qualifies as being a legitimate "single issue" concern...[Read]

2 comments:

Defender said...

I've seen actual posts in the Internet calling for denying gun purchases (legal ones) to people on prescription antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications. All my friends who can afford it are taking Prozac or something in that family. Times are tough, financially and freedom-wise, and have been for quite a while, and sensitive, intelligent people cannot help but feel the strain. One out of four Americans is or has been treated with low-dose medicine and/or counseling. Cuts quite a swath through the population as far as potential prohibited persons.
Another example of creating the conditions necessary to point to a problem that doesn't exist and make that pod-people groan.
We have the drug "crisis" and the terrorism crisis and the global warming crisis and the obese child crisis and something must be done NOW. But you have to pass the law before you can see what's in it.
Argument of tyrants, creed of slaves.
And if you object, then YOU are a propagandist on the level of Hitler's man Goebbels, says Rep. Steve Cohen.
Then "No, I didn't call them Nazis, I'm sure I didn't."

Defender said...

I have alread gotten a self-congratulatory email from Rep. Eric "PATRIOT Act" Cantor about the House voting to repeal Obamacare.
I said "Well done," and that I look forward to seeing a Republican alternative without mandates, privacy-destroying medical record digitization and centralization requirements or increased taxes on non-health-related things to pay for it.
But you know, he's the "balance" guy. "Needs" against rights.