by AgentR11 » Sat 06 Aug 2011, 19:57:18
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'I')t started about 20 years ago, started small but it has been growing, we lost a lot of slices just after 911, surly you can't dispute this..
Not really sure on this one. It *seems* that way, but every time I run down the pipe on a suggested candidate, it lands squarely on a private property owner applying restrictions to public access to their private resource.
People bring up the TSA thing, but if you push it down the pipe, you come to the point of boarding a private airplane for money. Airlines couldn't manage the security thing while keeping their customers, so punted to the government. Government gets to be the offender, airline gets to say, "oh we don't approve... but.."; etc.
Or the various assertions of repression, that all boil down to Bob wanting to engage in interstate commerce, but not be subject to what the constitution most definitely says Bob should be subject to, ie, federal regulation of interstate commerce. I could understand the annoyance, if this was the Feds busting down my door for mowing a neighbors lawn for money; but its not. These are people uniformly engaging in interstate commerce, but thinking they are freedom fighters or something by refusing to play by the rules that the constitution says the feds are responsible for crafting.
I do see the Government is observing more, but how is that a loss of freedom? I don't give a flying ***** what they know or want to know; and as long as they are content that I couldn't care less, its all fine. So far, the Government has shown no sign of being interested in my non-interest, and I see no reason to suspect that will ever change.
So what freedom am I supposed to have lost?
Seriously.