Too Many Laws

We live in a world of laws. To damned many of them. These politicians have way too much time on their hands. A country that was founded on the ideals of liberty, personal freedom, and freedom from tyranny has become an endorser of everything our founding fathers stood for.

NJ to ban texting and talking on the phone

New Hampshire has banned smoking in bars and restaurants. I guess the phrase "Live Free or Die" is only lip service.

I am sick of these freedom hating assholes trying to legislate us to death. Our founding fathers would be sick if they saw this today. More importantly if people like Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and George Washington were alive today they would be considerd cooks, or fringe candidate because they would be against this needless legislation.

They would stand against cell phone bans and limits on where you can smoke.

John Stuart Mill said it best

The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

Posted by psugrad98 at June 21, 2007 07:26 AM | TrackBack