Stay Medusa's Hand

Alternate title: The Triumph of All-encroaching Government Over Good Sense-  Even some of George W. Bush's most steadfast supporters, who also reverenced civil liberty, were concerned about the Patriot Act and certain intrusive aspects of intelligence gathering that involved domestic spying. Basically, these skeptical citizens trusted Bush but feared what those in the field might do and what a successor of Bush might do with these powers, especially if he (or she) was less scrupulous than Bush was perceived to be. Barack Hussein Obama has already arrogated considerable, unprecedented power to himself (he fired the head of GM) and is proposing even more massive consolidation of authority with health care reform and behavior modifying legislation in the guise of climate legislation. If one concedes Obama's intentions are innocent (which I am not prepared to do), think of the damage a less noble successor could do with all that new found ability to alter the way your family consumes energy and if you and yours have ready access to medical treatment or if you will have to worry that some statement you make or made in the past or some political position someone in your family may have taken might be enough for some unknown bureaucrat to deny care. We are already in jeopardy of our medical privacy being violated with medical workers ignoring HIPAA to sell the records of celebrities. Law enforcement and IRS personnel have been known to snoop where they have no legal right to be and what assurance do we have that when government is more expansive, that forays into our business will be either innocent, legal, or limited. Relinquishing the last vestiges of economic freedom to the global climate change hoax about to be perpetrated in Copenhagen will put paid to the prospect of robust recovery as cheap abundant energy has always been key to a growing economy. Untold damage may befall us when the government centralizes control that much more. Time is running short, call your Congressman and two Senators today and tell them man-caused global climate change is a hubris-driven myth and a money and freedom grabbing racket. Tell those who supposedly represent you in Washington that they must oppose all five versions of health care reform floating in Congress and any permutation of these plans that will lead to the rise of public option "hell" care.