REGULATING FREEDOM

Are we witnessing the consequences of truth? Let’s just present a few cases and let you decide. Punishments and regulations typically characterize the culture of Washington politics in this administration. Wild animal owners in Ohio must be punished so a new exotic animal law goes into effect to punish and regulate them. Child labor on farms must be forbidden so a new law restricts children of farm families, excluding friends and relatives. Gas stations must not make a profit in this time of rising oil prices, so concerned citizens take the lead from Occupy Wall Street protesters and boycott local stations. Environmentalists decided that the oryx is endangered so when areas become over-populated, none can be killed, not even a dying, deformed young animal. Burger King sees the hammer descending, so it volunteered to buy eggs and pork only from un-caged and un-penned hens and hogs. A deadly auto pileup from an error in judgment when opening an obscured highway is blamed on the individual’s lack of “formal road re-opening training.” Laugh if you must. Lastly, if truth bears consequences, what could happen if we called Obama by his proper genetic name, a mulatto? One fact is obvious, the shadow of punishment and regulation is just as alarming as the object that casts it - big, brother government.