The sign in front of the local variety store said No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service!<\/p>\n
So I strolled in, sporting my Sunday-best shoes and shirt, plus an overlong red necktie. But no pants, just for variety. The sign didnt say anything about pants. I left before the police got there.<\/p>\n
Where does the United States Constitution say I cant dress any dab burn way I please anywhere I take a notion to mosey?<\/p>\n
If you stare, thats your problem, pal.<\/p>\n
My fellow oppressed Americans, this is yet another example of our vanishing freedoms. And it started way before the current totalitarian mask-wearing\/needle-jabbing campaign.<\/p>\n
But this latest is the greatest infringement of all. Youre telling me I cant go to a sold-out Hot Chili Peppers concert unvaccinated, mask-less and symptomatic and expectorate over everyone within a 30-foot radius? Man, we have sunk mighty low in this country.<\/p>\n
But wait, theres more. How about casual Fridays? I cant be casual on Monday? Or Wednesday? Or on Benito Mussolinis birthday?<\/p>\n
Now take cars (and they will!). In case you missed the summons, you got to register your vehicles with the government, each and every gas-guzzler, every couple of years, too. Did your great-great-grandpa register his horse and buggy? Methinks not! Is motor vehicle registration mentioned once in the Constitution? I believe it says only something like this: The right of the people to own, rent or lease high emission conveyances shall not be infringed<\/p>\n
Dont get me started on emission controls.<\/p>\n
It wont be long before they come for our pickups and pry our cold dead hands from the steering wheels. Well all be walking to the variety store in our skivvies.<\/p>\n
While we still have our vehicles, Johnny Law says we cant drive 100 mph in a school zone. Why not? I figure its a good way to teach kids to look both ways! You should see those little dickens jump and hop.<\/p>\n
And whats with this blood alcohol content nonsense? They keep lowering the limit every few years. I dont know about you, but I drive way better after pounding a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.<\/p>\n
Want proof? Well, here I am, still churning out cogent commentary, aint I?<\/p>\n
I trace what ails us all the way back to the Ten Commandments and Charlton Heston. Dont covet thy neighbors wife! Im telling you, Charlie, shes like a total babe. Saint Peter will understand.<\/p>\n
Now theyre even telling us we cant bust into the peoples house the United States Capitol and smash up a few lecterns and whatnot that we paid for with our own tax money. OK, we chased a few congressmen and senators about the joint but they looked like they could use the exercise.<\/p>\n
Well, that about does it, Id say. Let freedom ring!<\/p>\n
David Holahan is a freelance writer from East Haddam.<\/p>\n
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