Back Talk

The Mississippi Legislature has provided us with another small example of the erosion of rights in America: The Mississippi legislators introduced a bill that would make it illegal for Mississippi restaurants to serve obese patrons. I didn’t read the bill contents to learn who gets to decide whether a patron is obese or not and do not know what they plan to use as criteria. What’s next? Banning ugly people from bars, right along with the smokers? Banning quiet people from sporting events? I see that Berkeley (Sillyville, USA) is banning Marine Recruiters from their city, and, in fact have set up a private parking spot in front of the recruiting office for the group “code pink” to make it easy for that motley, Marxist, militant group to demonstrate and block young men from entering the Marine Corps office. Code Pink is one of those way off left outfits that makes one a little embarrassed for the silent majority in that town. In spite of Berkeley and San Francisco, we are the best country in the world with the best form of government despite the problems; however, we are far from being a free country. A free country is one in which the government provides for national security, protects its citizens from foreign aggression, coins money, builds roads, provides a judicial system, and little more. It refrains from whittling away at individual rights and watering down our independence and freedom of choice like the choice that young Berkely men have to talk with a Marine recruiter free of harrassing demonstrators.