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Marked in Pgh on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:51:52 PM
The Left is always for more power and contol. Now they mandate contaminating our homes with mercury and then setting us up to be victims or villains in the inevitable lawsuits resulting from their actions.
Remember marjoram and all its health benefits over butter? Now it's assailed because it contains the new evil of Trans Fats. Most recently, Trans Fats were banned in California, where Arnold is trying to morph into Gov. Moonbeam by installing the first state wide ban against those evil, artificial fats.
Remember all those complaints about carbon monoxide and how deadly it all is and that we should convert it to eco friendly carbon dioxide? It was cleaner, it was healthier and it was plant food. The idea was impressed upon us that more carbon dioxide makes plants grow; so every time we breathe, a flower blooms. Then the emissions of carbon monoxide were reduced and they needed something else to nag us about and demonize; so they went after plant food and turned it into a greehouse gas. This was picked up by the news media and magnified, even though carbon dioxide is a smaller trace gas in the atmosphere than argon gas and argon hasn't been demonized, yet. Some day, they will demonize nitrogen as a greenhouse gas, even though it's an inert gas and makes up more than 60% of the atmosphere. First, they'll convince us of the volatility of the oxygen in the air and take down another rabbit hole.
The liberals have been after the Boy Scouts for years with lawsuits and local government activism in order to force them to allow gay scout mastres access to scouts. This way, they can set up the Boy Scouts of America for pre-fab lawsuits brought about from any resulting homosexual child molestation cases. The Boy Scouts of America, a private organization based on general Christian principles, have successfully fought and won in the Supreme Court because of the right of freedom of association, for now. The Left will not be happy until they set up the Boy Scouts for these incidents and the resulting lawsuits. How can scouts stay morally straight, when they are being placed in moral danger and are having their first amendment rights to freely exercise their religion and of free asssociation are systematically violated by endless lawsuits and community pressure from advocates? I was a Boy Scout, and though most of the other scouts were not part of my religious denomination, I did not feel excluded among Catholic, other Protestant or Eastern Orthodox scouts. We were Boy Scouts because we, and our families, had the right to freely associate with whom we wanted to associate with or else we left, period.
The Democrats in Congress has now banned incadescent light bulbs, to be replaced by compact fluorescents. They are effectively forcing Americans to buy and install an ineffecient and enviromentally destructive device in our homes containing mercury; setting up the manufacturers of these devices for new lawwsuits and placing us in mortal, instead of moral danger. It's all about the money the Left can extact from us, through more government regulations and monetary awards from lawsuits waiting in the wings to capitalize on these changes.
The change in attitude and emphasis will occur once the solution to a problem is demonized as the new danger. It's the ultimate, ongoing extortion racket in a progressive society, not only in Congress. Let's split the difference and bring lawsuits against Congress now to nix the whole process on the basis of the 9th and 10th Amendments.