Posted on 06/19/2004 9:16:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Go ahead, Californians, it's your legal right to seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - unless it makes you fat or skins your knee.
Critics say that's the message being sent in a slew of state bills targeting everything from soda pop in public schools to cellphone talk in private cars.
Assemblyman Tony Strickland, R-Moorpark, calls it "nanny government" - an insatiable appetite by legislators to replace parents in deciding what's best for families.
Many of the controversial proposals are aimed at minors, including bills to keep them from buying violent video games, tanning at indoor salons or riding motor scooters without a permit or license.
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It's how much more of this can you stomach?
Even a part-time legislature may not stop these "rights" activists.
reFoRm Now!
Let's see.
For a fifteen-year-old girl: abortion without parental consent, good; hamburger, bad.
For a fifteen-year-old boy: medical marijuana, good; cigarette, bad.
For a senior citizen: euthanasia, good; hamburger or cigarette, very, very bad.
Is that clear?
California used to have a part time legislature until the mid-late 1960's. The legislature met in the summer and then all the legislators went back home to their "real" jobs and professions. Jesse, "Money is the mothers milk of politics", Unruh, changed all that and we now have a full time legislature and politician is now a full time job, just behind fund raising.
The real problem with the California's full time legislature is that it enables an abuse of power on the scale of Willie Brown. It also enables some legislators to pursue personal agendas, such as Jack Scott's personal war on guns. The old summer legislature only had time to consider the meaningful, not the personal.
I don't know why they call themselves liberals. Almost all these nanny laws come from them. They hold public contests to come up with new and clever regulations to liberate us even more.
The "liberals" are opposed to the whole Liberty 'thing'.
This guy comes off like one of those 'loserdopians' I see getting lambasted on FR everytime they pop up. I'm surprised there isn't a barf alert on the article. Personal freedom and responsibility? No, thanks. We're conservatives.
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