A friend of mine posted this on face book and I told him I was posting it on my face book as well.
It is amazing how society forgets that freedom is something that you not only fight for from aggressors, but you fight for freedom from those who claim to have your best interests at heart. More atrocities have been committed and freedom lost because the hubris filled people in power convinced the willfully ignorant populace that they needed to be saved from themselves
After I posted this I had a few questions from other friends to elaborate on my thoughts and reasons for posting this.
So sorry to go off on a rant here but:
We are, in my mind the most prospers nation and best equipped to solve the world's problems. The problem we have is that we constantly fix the squeaky wheel while the care is falling apart. As my friend put it in his message I posted. We simply hand away our freedoms because someone else thinks or told us it's a good idea. Hubris, a great word meaning prideful, excessive ambition sums up all elected officials in my book. An example of giving away our freedoms, in California and AZ and I am sure' in many more states you cannot smoke a cigarette in a restaurant. Now I grew up in a time that one could light up anywhere they wanted to. Believe it or not even a mall or a hospital. Now because of the few the squeaky wheels, smokers which I am one, can't smoke anywhere. Don't get me wrong I grew up in a house of smokers and I am the only one of my siblings that smokes but it was not because my father smoked that got me started on this terrible drug no, it was not because of some cartoon character that got me started, it was because I chose to at 19 in college. When I would go to a restaurant, that back then they had smoking sections. I would look around make sure that others where smoking before I lit up so not to offend their meal. When I traveled, which I did a lot of up until recently, I would smoke only in areas that were designated for smokers. My choice to smoke is my choice; I pay higher health care rates because of it. But because of the few that believe it's their right, no their task their fate in life to dictate to others what can and cannot be done to their own bodies. Our elected officials said hum, what's that squeaky noise I here? Oh never mind that we still are on fossil fuel even after the 70's, that our schools are failing and canceling programs that have been proven to keep kids in school and make them successful, that our nation is falling behind. No the only thing they say is what's that squeaky noise I hear, Oh let's fix that first that sounds is driving me crazy' and shazam, we have a smoking is ban even in BARS. BARS are you kidding me now that one made no since to me at all. I understand the test and studies about second hand smoke and I have lost family to lung cancers and other terrible deceases as everyone has. But for those that smoked it was their choice to smoke. They knew the risks but yes smoking is bad and when it all comes out what the tobacco industry has done to keep people hocked on something so addictive they will have to pay a price to a much higher court then mans.
A few days ago a friend sent me another great email but I will not post or go into too much details here but, it talks about having our own Boston Tea Party. As emails go around the world I am sure that most of you that are reading this have seen the video of this great thinker ranting about how we have let our elected officials run away with the country. I agree it's time to do as the video says everyone get a tea bag and mail it to your congressmen, senators and any other elected official you can think of. It's time to exercise our strongest freedom before it's taken away as well peaceful civil unrest and protest. It's time to take back and as the post I made in face book states it's time to fight for our freedoms against our own elected officials that have become too comfortable, to detached and to intermingled in the business of politics. I have said it before; I want someone in office that has had to struggle. That knows what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck and pull themselves out of it. I want someone I can relate to. Someone that knows what it's like to fear not having health care so they can keep a roof over their heads. Someone that believes as I do that less is more. Stay out of our lives and take care of the things we cannot. Protect our boarders, build our infrastructure, educate us and make no law that interferes with an individual's personal rights.
It's time for us to stop being sheep lead where ever they want us to go and become the nation of leaders and thinkers that put a man on the moon. That started the internet and a million other life changing things. That can accomplish anything once we all join together and make it happen as we have done some many times before. It's time to become great again.
