There was a time when Americans believed in freedom.
The US is dying from a million cuts. Part of the reason the USA is a nanny police state now is that whenever there is a problem, the kneejerk reaction in the US is to call for a new law.
Nanny state laws are not the best solution, however. Nanny state laws lead to more laws, higher fines, and tougher sentences. Thirty years ago, DWI laws were enacted that led to DWI checkpoints and lower DWI levels. Seatbelt laws led to backseat seatbelt laws, childseat laws, and pet seatbelt laws. Car liability insurance laws led to health insurance laws and gun liability laws. Smoking laws that banned smoking in buildings led to laws against smoking in parks and then bans against smoking in entire cities. Sex offender registration laws led to sex offender restriction laws and violent offender registration laws.
Nanny state laws don’t make us safer, either. Nanny state laws lead people to be careless since they don’t need to have personal responsibility anymore. People don’t need to be careful crossing the street now because drunk-driving has been outlawed and driving while using a cellphone is illegal. People don’t investigate companies or carry out due diligence because businesses must have business licenses now.
The main point of nanny state laws is not safety. The main purposes of more laws are control and revenue generation for the state.
Another reason laws are enacted is because corporations give donations to lawmakers to stifle competition or increase sales.
Many laws are contradictory, too. Some laws say watering lawns is required, while other laws say watering lawns is illegal.
Many nanny state laws that aim to solve a problem can be fixed by using existing laws. If assault is already illegal, why do we need a new law that outlaws hitting umpires?
Nanny state laws are not even necessary. If everything was legal would you steal, murder, and use crack cocaine? Aren’t there other ways to solve problems besides calling the police? Couldn’t people educate or talk to people who bother them? Couldn’t people be sued for annoying behavior? Couldn’t people just move away? Even if assault was legal, wouldn’t attackers risk being k**led or injured, too? Do people have consciences? Having no laws doesn’t mean actions have no consequences.
If there is no victim, there is no crime.
We don’t need thousands of laws when we only need 10.
Freedom is not just a one way street. You can only have freedom for yourself if you allow others to have it.
Should swimming pools be banned because they are dangerous? Hammers? Bottles? Rocks? Energy drinks? Pillows?
Control freaks might get angry when a neighbor owns three indoor cats, but what did the neighbor take from them? Why should this be illegal? Is outlawing cats something a free country should do? Doesn’t banning everything sound like the opposite of freedom?
Instead of getting mad at people who like freedom, why don’t people realize that freedom is a two way street?
If you allow others to paint their house purple then you can, too.
If you allow others to own a gun then you can, too.
If you allow others to swear then you can, too.
If you allow others to gamble then you can, too.
Who wants to live in a prison?
Think. Question everything.
WTF?
The government does not police itself. Government workers are not kind saints.
When a business sucks, it goes bankrupt. When the government sucks, it gets bigger.
Do you realize that the USA is supposed to be a free country?
Do you realize that the USA is no longer a democracy?
Do you realize that the USA fought the British, the N**is, the North Koreans, and Saddam because tyranny is bad?
Do you think government workers are more moral than you are?
Do you think the government can live your life better than you do?
Does the government spend your money better than you do?
Do you realize that you no longer have any rights?
Do you realize that everything is illegal now?
Do you realize that personal responsibility means to be responsible for your actions, not being forced by the government?
Do you realize that you no longer have the right to free speech?
Do you realize that no longer have religious freedom?
Do you realize that guns are illegal?
Do you realize that your web browsing, emails and, phone calls are being wiretapped?
Do you realize that you no longer have property rights?
Do you realize that the TSA will grope you if you travel?
Do you realize that you no longer have the right to remain silent?
Do you realize that government can indefinitely detain you without trial?
Do you realize that the government can torture you?
Do you realize that the government can extrajudicially assassinate you?
Do you realize the USA is bankrupt?
Do you realize that the USA is a warmonger?
Wake up.
Do Americans who think that they can survive tyranny by joining the Gestapo realize that they have to live with their consciences?
Do Americans who think that they can survive tyranny by remaining silent and obedient realize that this plan failed for millions of people who were k**led in N**i Germany, the USSR, China, and Cambodia?
Do Americans who think that they can survive tyranny by being rich, famous, attractive, educated, or having influence realize that this plan failed to protect people in history?
Do Americans who think that they can survive tyranny by being white realize that wh**ever they allow the government to do to others will eventually be done to them?
Looks like the elites have won everything. The g*******ts got bailouts, turned the US into a police state, increased the debt, and have launched endless wars and Americans walk around like zombies thinking everything is just fine.
Americans think that they have perfect safety and believe tyranny only applies to others.
Not only have C****es lost their right to protest, but you did, too.
Not only have N**is lost their right to own a gun, but you did, too.
Not only do drunk-drivers and i*****l a***ns need to go through checkpoints, but you do, too.
Not only can junkies have their property forfeited, but you can, too.
Not only Muslims can be groped by the TSA, be indefinitely detained without trial, be extra-judicially assassinated, and be wiretapped by the NSA, but you can, too.
One bad thing about the US collapse is the waiting for this nightmare to end.
The USA gets worse by the minute.
What can you do now? V**e?
Americans stab themselves in their eyes with icepicks and then become outraged that icepicks are not illegal.
When will the stock market crash?
Why can't the debt be paid down?
Why doesn't the US default on the debt?
Why can't smoking laws be repealed?
Why aren't the wars ended?
Why don't Americans get into the streets and break windows?
Why don't Americans fire on police stations?
Why don't states secede?
You can either pay taxes that fund wars, debt, or tyranny or dropout and break the law by not paying taxes.
Do Americans feel like guilty cowards now?
What are Americans waiting for? Do you think tomorrow will be better?
The elites have turned everyone into liars, hypocrites, cowards, or criminals.
Obeying the law is easy when only murder and theft is illegal, but no one respects the law when everything is illegal.
Everyone has a breaking point.
Americans might support a decree that requires everyone to get a tattoo, but why is this the government's business?
What do you do if cohabitation is illegal, but married couples are taxed at a higher rate?
Why get a driver license when you must give the government your fingerprints?
The constitution protects the right to own a gun, but what if guns are illegal?
What do you do if you don't want insurance, but you are legally required to buy insurance?
What do you do if watering your lawn is illegal, but not watering your grass is also a crime?
Why obey the law if the government doesn't?
Now that the US is a police state, every American should expect to be arrested at some point.
The world is an Orwellian nightmare now. The US is not a democracy. The government and i*****l i*******ts don't obey the law. You are on camera constantly, the Gestapo is everywhere, you must give your fingerprints to drive, you are being tracked by license plate readers, you'll be groped if you travel or go to a ball game, you must wear a microchip if you go to Disneyland, you cannot use the Internet if you don't have a phone and you can't get a phone without a facial scan, everything is illegal, the government is wiretapping you, you don't have free speech, you don't have religious rights, guns are banned, the government can steal your property, the government can extrajudicially assassinate you and torture you, cash is illegal, and you cannot escape because the border is closed.
If the US was free, peaceful, had a booming economy, had a balanced budget, had sound money, had safe streets, had no minimum wage, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income in the past, are Americans happier now that the USA is a police state, at war, has a dead economy, is in debt, has a minimum wage, and high taxes?