YOU VIOLATED THE LAW TODAY

We all know that we are getting fed up to our necks and beyond with government regulations and intrusions into our lives.  Did you know that federal government agencies, which have no Constitutional authority to enact laws, did in fact enact over 50,000 pages of regulations last year?  These are regulations that directly affect you, your business, or agencies that do business with you. 

Try some of these on for size.  You can catch a fish or two and have them for dinner, but if you invite guests to share, you could be in violation of the law because you didn’t have the fish processed by an authorized processing plant.  Same thing with veggies from your garden. 

Let’s presume you drive some miles to work every day and a co-worker offers you $35 per week if you’ll pick him up and take him with you.  You’re undoubtedly in violation of laws pertaining to common carriers and you probably need to jack your car liability insurance up to $1 million or more to comply with the permits you are going to have to get. 

I know of a case where a Native American, who has treaty rights to be able to hunt public lands whenever he wants, encountered a barrier across road access into a hunting area with a sign that indicated the area was closed for the season.  That denies him access to an area where he can hunt 24/7 anytime, and thereby violates his treaty rights.  He took down the barrier and passed thru, proceeded to hunt and was arrested.  He protested based on his treaty rights to no avail because he "trespassed" on the road and the case may end up in the Supreme Court. 

If you spit on the sidewalk, you can be arrested in most jurisdictions.  While your government is now sending your 12-year-old son free condoms in the mail at your taxpayer expense, it is also ready to toss your fanny in jail for allowing your 12-year-old son to have underage sex. 

The fact is that there is nothing you can do, including dying, that does not involve government regulations.  You can literally be charged with dozens of infractions of the “law” or regulations on any given day and you have no say so in the creation of those rules or the hiring of the officials who create them and promulgate them. 

Enough is truly enough and we need to take back our government in November.  We need to be the ones in control of government; government has no right to be in control of us.  That’s why we declared independence from Britain in the first place.  So, it’s time we got back to those basic principles of who controls who. 

We can start by voting out all incumbents in November.  We did a pretty good job in 2010; now let’s follow up by finishing the job.    

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.