I consider myself to be a somewhat paranoid individual. When you grow up in a small town and your parents are friends with the police, you learn real quick you can't get away with much. Or if something happens at school, because of small town phone gossip, your parents will know before you even get home the who, what, when, where, why and how of the situation (or least some one's version of it.)
With things like that, I do get paranoid about "Big Brother". I lived it and I know what people will do when they actually are out to get you.
Now our sitting President has a site where people can be turned in for saying mean things about him. Granted, the site has become the laughing stock of the internet and spoofed like you wouldn't believe.
I've definitely enjoyed a hardy laugh over these and the one liners on Twitter. But what happens if it stops being a joke?
People are starting to get arrested for committing crimes they didn't even know they were committing. You can't even go down to a dry lake bed and dig around in the dirt with out risking a chance of having charges pressed against you. I shudder to think what would have happened when we went camping in Yosemite if I had allowed my girls to pick wildflowers.
How much further is our government going to push things? Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill to what's in it. We still don't know everything that is in the Obamacare bill, the Stimulus packages, or the upcoming Jobs Bill. Do I need to worry that I'm going to be retro-actively charged for my thoughts on my blog or the things I home school my children on?
1 comments:
Great point.
It's why I ebb and flow with the comedy. Sometimes I feel like we enjoy the mocking too much and lose site of how deadly serious the left's plans for the world are.
But as long as we take them serious while we ridicule, the ridicule serves as a way to keep loose and not go completely catatonic.
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