Mechanisms of Control

Universal health care is a means for government to dominate your life. They can tell you if you are permitted to smoke, consume alcohol, or drink sugary soda. They will determine if you are too fat, and then mandate your diet to combat obesity to control their costs. They can ban guns overturning our Second Amendment to curb the costs of treating victims of "gun violence". The proposed cap and trade regime on carbon emissions will tell you what you may drive and where-you can not be emitting your carbon in already polluted LA. They will tell you where and if you can fly. They may even take the decision about power consumption out of your hands with scheduled blackouts or brownouts, maybe during the less productive night hours when the authorities deem you should be sleeping-you must. Yesterday, there was debate over whether 9/11 should be a national day of service, sounds innocuous enough-even beneficial, but remember this Democrat crowd perverts the noble concept of volunteerism. Bill Clinton corrupted pitching in by paying his AmeriCorps volunteers. Maryland adopted Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's proposal to compel schoolchildren to offer their labor as a condition to graduate when she was Lieutenant Governor. It is a small thing for fascists to go from suggested to compulsory. Conservative economist Milton Friedman explained the perils of compelled national service eloquently in his argument against the military draft and helped end the US Selective Service System with his cogent and incisive position, and I concur that forced labor comes with pitfalls that will be exacerbated under this most controlling of all American leaders. What Obama requests this September 11 may be his demand next year. The door is even open to Obama creating a civilian force "just as powerful, just as well-funded" as the military-a concept he proposed during his Presidential campaign. Millions of unemployed youth could find themselves conscripted- with the terrifying potential for Obama Brown Shirts to enforce his will, the ultimate mechanism of control against a pliant and disarmed people.