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Commentary

authoritarian creep

You might have noticed the slow but steady movement of administration into every facet of your life. The new rules come stamped with the benign legitimation: "For Your Own Protection". This holds for illicit drug use, smoking, driving, eating, exercising, child rearing (parenting), gender relations, working, and even sleeping. One of the main difficulties about such laws is that they often correspond to common sense. That is, smoking is unhealthy therefore you shouldn't smoke; sleeping outdoors can make you sick therefore sleeping outdoors is illegal; etc. That being the case, they are hard to argue against in terms of content. But that isn't the problem. The problem is the assumption by administrators that they can legislate against your actions in order to protect you from your own ignorance, stupidity, or whatever it might be that might lead you to smoke, drink, sleep outside, eat too much or however it might be that you threaten harm to yourself. Meanwhile ...

Be prepared ... in the meantime, there was nowhere else to put these pictures. For more ranting, try the bucket blog