Right now there is a slow boil happening. A large scale, immediate reduction in our rights would never pass muster here. Citizen uprisings would have overwhelmed law enforcement, and the politicians who attempted it would have been hauled off in cuffs, or worse. The more realistic, credible threat is what we’ve seen since the beginning of the 20th century: Incremental, gradual, and “justifiable” cuts in our liberties. Most of these are disguised as “common sense” tweaks to our laws. Health care reform seems outrageous now, and it is, but our government has spent the last 100 or so years robbing us of business liberties, personal liberties, and perhaps most noticeably, the right to keep the money we earn.

Liberals will tell us that it’s just necessary to have some business licensing to keep things in order. Cities have taken it and run with it, though. John Stossel discusses it.

“Our most outrageous example of licensing madness is the plight of David Price, a man who learned the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished, especially when messing with lawyers. Price made the mistake of helping Eldon Ray, a fellow Kansan who was fined for practicing architecture without a license. Price didn’t represent Ray in court; he just helped Ray by writing a letter to respond to the fine. In states like Kansas, that practically makes Price Perry Mason. A judge (a lawyer with a robe) threw Price into jail on contempt charges, not to be released until he promised to never give legal advice again – ever.”

So we’ve lost our freedom to conduct business without State approval, which may come at a high cost, or it may not come at all. Well, it’s not that bad yet. Do you trust that it won’t get that bad?

If you’re not planning on starting a business, perhaps you’d be more concerned about government’s interest in your diet. Again, liberals find justification for their increasing restrictions. You’re too fat, they say. You could get sick if you eat too much of one thing or another and only government can help keep us on track. So there are limits on salt, increasingly gaudy food labels, bans on trans fats, and probably a dozen more senseless rules coming in future years if these food tyrants aren’t stopped.

Want to build on your property? Better check with City Hall. They’ll probably help you out, unless they deem you aren’t building a safe enough structure. After all, if they don’t help you make safe buildings, who will? Once you get done putting up that new structure, they’ll ask for a small token of your appreication in the form of higher taxes into perpetuity.

If we don’t stop the constant senseless erosion of freedoms, we are doomed to live as Soviets once lived. At some point, conservative defenders of the Constitution will need to simply stand up to “common sense regulation” and tell the progressive liberals “no more”. Sadly, it’s proven impossible to do that so far.

There are emotional segments of a society that just can’t bring themselves to turn down a new rule. Especially, if a slick looking politician brings out some fancy graphs and statistics to justify the new rule. Cautious mothers want those life saving seat belts, air bags, and other expensive automobile safety features. Established businesses actually root for competition killing barriers to entry. It’s a shame that we’ve become so short sighted that we root for the very laws which will someday enslave us. It is nearly impossible to roll back nanny state laws. Once these progressives get their hands on your freedoms they will use every hyper-emotional trick in the book to con you into keeping them.

Eventually the tyranny became too great for our Founders and they left. They knew it would be tough to keep our freedoms in this country since politicians have a way of tricking us into giving them up. Can we prove them wrong?

How many months has it been since you came home and politics didn’t get discussed? I’ll hazard a guess of about 14. Since the day our infallible leader was placed upon his throne we have had constant chaos. Each day is a new disaster, that our fearless President is diligently working on. Sometimes he’s working on problems we didn’t even think were problems, like trying our military and old Bush administration officials for crimes. Whether or not you agree with him, Obama’s on TV each and every day letting you know what you need to be thinking about. That’s the problem, right there.

You have your own life. You’ve got a job that’s probably a lot more ridiculous than it needs to be, but you have to keep it because Obama’s long-term normal is 10% unemployment. Probably, you’d enjoy going for walks, playing a sport, talking to neighbors about any old thing, being involved with church and the like. Obama has different plans. He’s got lots of help too. With a Congress America can’t trust, we’ve got to keep a very close eye on Ms. Nancy Pelosi, her partner in crime Mr. Harry Reid, and about 532 other crooks on Capitol Hill.

So while you’d prefer to be doing a plethora of other activities, the liberals have you glued to the TV to find out what they’re about to do to you next. You never know when you’re going to need to show up a protest, get in a letter writing or phone calling campaign, or keep an eye on your paycheck. That’s just beautiful for the tyrant-in-chief. Obama knows he has your 100% undivided attention. Because of this, Obama is always setting your agenda, not you.

In November, when Patriotic Americans across this beautiful land kick these clowns out of office, you’ll probably have a lot more free time. You can just spend a couple hours each weekend watching how Congress whipped up on our misguided, ineffective leader. Until then, buckle up, grab some popcorn, get a drink and stay put. It’s going to be a long eight months.

Slowly we will reach a point where your every move inside the home and outside the home will be monitored at all times, for your safety. If we break our Constitution because of illegal immigration (which isn’t too hard to solve, if they would build the wall the promised), then why not break it for any number of other reasons.

Today Ron Paul was on Fox News with Megyn Kelly wondering out loud why the government can’t just put cameras in our homes. This way child or spousal abuse could be caught and the perpetrators prosecuted. Once you slice our freedoms down for one “good reason” why not the next? We can justify almost anything in the name of 9-11 and “safety” in general. The Founders had strong and clear thoughts on the issue. You can only gain this perceived “safety” through allowing big brother surveillance on your life. Once you do that, however, you have no safety at all. Government is not to be trusted and they are not here to help.

It isn’t surprising that a Democrat like Chuck Schumer would support this. It also isn’t too surprising to see Lindsey Graham working for the progressives. He’s a pro-bailout, moderate, fake Republican. What is surprising is that so few of his peers are publicly taking him to task on this outrageous proposal. It’s past time for Graham to go.

In the 1920′s, they “helped” us get rid of alcohol, even though they used to not think alcohol was bad, but after the 20′s they decided it wasn’t so bad after all. Before that they helped us rid our country of other drugs they used to think weren’t a problem. Cocaine used to be in Coca-Cola, the all-knowing Government wasn’t a problem in the mid-late 1800′s. Then someone decided it was a problem.

Nanny state proponents point to the violence that comes from people who use drugs, but they miss the point entirely. During prohibition, only law-breakers drank…because it was illegal. So pointing to people who break the law by doing drugs is intellectually dishonest, at best. What would law-abiding people be like if they had the freedom to use drugs if they chose to? We’ll never know, because none of us alive today can remember.

Having been so successful at banning most mood altering drugs, our protectors have moved onto food. States are targeting salt, sugar, trans-fats…essentially all the basic elements that make up food. They think we use too much of these ingredients and they are going to help.

I’m glad we have super-low unemployment, a booming economy, a Congress that pays its taxes, and a safe homeland. This way Government has time to fix the really important problems plaguing our great Nation, like salt.

The FDA is pushing the statist envelope even further by suggesting we should pack a nutrition label onto the front of all food packages. They don’t think you are capable of, or willing to, flip the box over and read. That’s complete non-sense. It’s more big brother trying to guilt trip us at the store.

Michelle Obama is doing her part by launching her anti-childhood obesity campaign. I’m sure happy we give the First Lady a budget to do important work like that. Maybe someone can inform Michelle that people in poverty eat more poorly and that we have 10% unemployment, so that means lots of people are eating lousy foods. I wonder if her efforts (and her husband’s) would be better spent getting folks a job.

“Fixing” people’s habits is antithetical to our heritage and culture. Rather than policing our grocery stores, why doesn’t Government get to work on that damn wall at the border, already.