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I fear the Constitution will never see its 200th birthday. One of the key provisions of the Bill of Rights seems to have breathed its last, without even a peep from the ACLU. Am I talking about censoring video games? Anti-gun laws? Search and seizure? Nope, it's the very first thing mentioned in Amendment I: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." "An established religion!?!?" you ask? We already have one.
Over the last several years, this country has been taken over by a youth and immorality cult. Its existence has pervaded almost every facet of our lives. Its basic premise is simple: if you do everything right, and the government protects you from unbelievers, you'll live forever. You can find its acolytes in the health clubs and gyms, jogging almost anywhere (parks, city streets, highways), buying groceries that have more in common with prescription drugs than food, and, of course, in the halls of government making sure the rest of us get with the program. (An easy way to spot them is to look for someone buying low-fat pet food, or broccoli!)
Someone once said that only people afraid to live are afraid to die. Obviously, life scares a whole lot of people. They don't even have a heavenly reward waiting. Their only reason for existing is to keep on existing. (Notice I said existing, not living.) These neo-Puritans seek a risk-free, predictable world where accidents, illness, enemy action, old age, and, ultimately, death, are banished.
If you think this is a put-on, turn on your television or read your newspaper. Advertising people learned long ago that youth (read 'sex') sells. Today, they've gone beyond using images of young people enjoying their products to promoting products on the basis of their youth- or health-enhancing qualities. Food products are advertised as being "good for you", not tasty. It's "heart-healthy" this and "chloresterol-lowering" that. (A favorite of mine is 'organic' produce. Organic means "carbon-based", and I have yet to see any inorganic produce.) Today's grocery store has more in common with a pharmacy than a food market. Everything is fortified or enhanced or some such nonsense until the original food is totally unrecognizable. But that's what the store owners and food companies think their customers want--food as medicine. (Some of these 'health' nuts have even starved their own little kids half to death by feeding them fat-free diets during their early years, causing irreversible physical and mental damage.)
The scary part of all this is the attempts of these religious fanatics to regulate the behavior of the rest of us. Those of us who are veterans of the motorcyclists' rights movement are all too familiar with those who wish to regulate our conduct "for our own good". Yep, these are the same folks who feed us a steady diet of helmet laws, seat belt laws, anti-smoking laws, don't hurt yourself laws, you'll put someone's eye out with that laws, don't forget your galoshes laws, blah, blah, blah. They are the nannies of the Nanny State. At the risk of being burned at the stake for heresy, I say "To hell with them!" I'm gonna kick back with a drink and a cigarette. See ya later.
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