An Iraq war veteran, a Marine, put up a flag in his own yard. The "community leaders" are ordering him to take it down because it violates someone else's sensibilities.
A high school senior who has a strong faith in God chose to be thankful to Him for her life. The school said she could not do that.
A middle school child rode his bike to school with a flag on it. The school says he must remove the flag.
A homeowner is fined because he gives away food he grows on his own property.
A homeowner applies to build a sunroom on his home, but is forbidden to do so because one of his neighbors objects.
Everywhere you look, there are controlling people who seem to derive their pleasure by making life difficult or miserable for others. They believe that somehow they have the right to dictate to others, and impose their own values on other people.
My question is this --- WHY do we allow them to get away with it?
In America, the founders dream was for a country where the citizens could do whatever they wanted as long as it did not do any substantial harm to anyone, and did not prevent others from doing what they wanted. But somewhere along the way we began to allow little despots to dictate to us - passing absurd laws and regulations that infringe on personal rights; zoning laws that go far beyond the original purpose of guaranteeing public safety and health; and generally imposing their will on others to give themselves a sense of power.
They need to be stopped. We the people need to band together and require public officials to reverse regulations and other impositions unless they can prove the regulation has a substantial effect on the general health and welfare of the community at large. If Joe's sunroom is not going to endanger anyone because it is built to acceptable safety standards, then he should be able to build it whether his neighbor likes it or not. And if raising the flag cannot be shown to be a threat to the community, the Marine should be able to fly his banner.
Some people pass these stupid regulations in the false belief it will make the world more perfect, by eliminating anything that might cause controversy. But in doing so, they actually add to the controversy by trampling upon our freedoms.
The world is not perfect, and it never will be. The control freaks need to learn that, and if they do not learn it, we need to remove them from any position of power and replace them with people who understand the true meaning of diversity - that we cannot and will not all be "alike". Nor should we be. Instead of trying to make everything the same, we should be celebrating our differences. After all, a rainbow that consists of just one color would not be very awe inspiring.
Our Creator tried hard to show us the value of diversity. Imagine if ever human had the same face and body, same color hair? Or all the trees looked the same, and all turned the same color in fall.
It's way past time to force our leaders - local, state and federal - to stop passing restrictions on human activity unless that activity poses a real threat, and to reverse those restrictions already passed.
And maybe, just maybe we will once again be a country of free people, with the freedoms to do those things that made this country great in the first place.
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