Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Cradle of our Nations Freedom Attacks Constitutional Rights

Boston is a crazy little town. It is a city of about 500,000 people give or take a few thousand. Also known as Bean Town and the home of the American Revolution. It is a city built upon civic duty and conservative principles.


It is so amazing to look at Boston today and think that it once was a cradle of our nations battle for freedom and liberty. You look at Boston now and you see a city that is run by Democrat hacks and thieves and thugs.


These people do not believe in the freedom of the people. The mayor, Tom Menino, is a Liberal Democrat hack who has been in office since the early 90's. What makes that amazing is this guy cannot talk. In fact he is referred to as Mumbles Menino.


But that is not what this post is about. I ran across another blog that mentioned and talked about one of Mayor Menino's bright ideas. It smacks right in the face of liberty and the Constitution. But that does not bother Liberal Democrats.


But thankfully the people of this great city are beginning to wake up a little and see what is really going on. The city has this project the call Safe Home. In a nutshell, the Boston City Police Department would go from home to home in what they called “high risk” neighborhoods and ask the residents if they could enter the home to search for guns being held by those under the age of 17.


At first glance you might think that this was a great idea. Get illegal guns off the street. But for those of us who know our rights as protected by the Constitution, we know this is a huge violation of the document. Not to mention it opens up a plethora of problems and issues for the owner or occupant of the home.


What the Police are hoping you will do is to voluntarily give up your rights. They think they can come into your home under the guise of “helping you and the neighborhood. This is far from the truth. Grizzly Groudswell put it very succinctly when he described what could happen once the police are in your home even if you invite them in voluntarily.


You must understand whenever the government, no matter what party, says they are doing something for your safety and it involves a direct violation or “voluntary” giving up of your rights, you will not get safety. You will get thugs and bullies with government badges in your home and you will have a damn hard time of getting them out.


Once you let the government in your home, they can do a number of things and you will be powerless to stop them. The Constitution gives you specific protection from government intrusion into your home. So why then would you invite the government in? They cannot protect you and your family. It is not the governments job to protect you and your family.


You cannot abdicate the raising of your children to the government either. Once you do so, you will never be free of the government. This is not liberty. It is not life. It is Tierney.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Food Police in the land of the Free

The food police are out in full force now. It is official. Boston is going to become the next city in a nation of “free” people to ban the use of trans-fats in food. Of course some of you think there is nothing wrong with that.


Boston joins New York City and Philadelphia (the city of Brotherly Love and one of the cradle cities of our nations birth) to ban this heart stopping kind of bad fat. But wait, I thought we lived in the land of freedom. I thought we lived in the land where you have the freedom and the right to chose. I guess some people think they know whats best for you and will chose for you.


Come, on now. Did you honestly think these liberal wackos would stop at cigerettes? It has gotten so bad with those things now, that some cities and towns won't even let you smoke them in public parks. Some states are considering banning them from cars, your car, if it has your kids in it.


The nanny state is going too far and each and ever one of you is letting it happen. Most of us don't remember the time of prohibition. That is a time when our illustrious leaders sought to put a ban on alcohol in the constitution. It was a total disaster and a true attack on personal freedom.


This is getting way out of control. We are bringing homosexual sex out into the open but forcing people who like to smoke and eat into the closet. If you think for one instant that the food and society police are going to stop at this level, then you are stupid. Let me be blunt. You are stupid and probably deserve to have your freedom taken away.


You are now being told what you can and cannot eat. Sure smoking may be bad for your health. But are they so sure that eating trans fats in moderation is bad? No they are not. We seem to find on a daily basis, some culture around the world that eats more of a particular bad food than we do yet they have a much lower heart disease rate than we do. They have lower diabetes rates than we do. They have lower disease rates in nearly everything that we do. And they have no universal health care.


Maybe its just the fact that these people have learned how to live their own lives without the government telling them how to. They have lived their lives and their way of life for centuries without the interference of some busy body government official trying to tell them what to put into their mouths.


Our government can't even get the food pyramid right and you will give them the power to tell you what to eat and how to live? This makes no sense. There should be outrage and loud voices of opposition to this sort of thing.


But no, our governments enact legislation that restricts your freedom and you barely make a peep. So when they come for your favorite pastime or food, when they take away your right to do what you want and should be able to do in your own home, in your own car, you will have only yourself to blame.