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A Reich of Their Own

Terry Gray

Short people and fat people are indeed second class citizens in the eyes of the state of Kentucky.  We all know that our great leadership knows what is best for us and is ever seeking to protect us against ourselves.  Proposed House Bill 284 gives exemptions from mandatory seat belt use for people under 5’ 4” and those too fat to get the seat belt fastened.  (The fat exemption addresses seat belt length, not fatness, making it a work of art on the politically correct canvas.)  How about exempting smokers?  Sometimes when I’m drinking coffee, eating a donut, looking at my calendar, talking on my cell phone, smoking a cigarette, and scanning the radio talk shows while cruising at 65, I’ll accidentally drop my cigarette on the floorboard.  My seatbelt makes it next to impossible to pick it up quickly.  This is unfair and I should have a seatbelt exemption.

Mary Lou Marzian, sponsor of House Bill 196, wants to redefine the word “conviction”.  I’ll notify Webster.

In Senate Bill 23, Denise Harper Angel wants to force Veterinarians to treat dogs with emergency conditions for free if the owners cannot pay.  I’m a dog person.  I’d rather hang with dogs than most people.  Dogs are honest, loyal, and politically incorrect just like me.  We have a lot in common.  However, we don’t force plumbers to fix toilets for free because someone can’t pay.  The same applies to most other trades and professions.  Why does our leadership feel that healthcare professionals must give away their services simply because they are in the business of healthcare? 

Socialism is a strong tool and there will be a time in the very near future when the words Republic and Democracy can no longer be used to describe this country.  The transition began when the word Republic took a back seat to Democracy and the socialists became mostly liberal Democrats because getting elected on a Socialist ticket in this country wasn’t likely to happen.  Khrushchev called it when he said that Socialism would take America without firing a shot.

J.R. Gray, no relation, has proposed House Bill 304.  The proposal would stop gas stations from pricing gas in the tenths.  Instead of $2.15.9 the gas would have to be priced at $2.16.  WOW, my prayers have been answered. 

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why the State of Kentucky feels the need to get involved in the pricing structure of privately owned businesses and what possible difference the change will make.  How long has our current gas pricing structure been around?  I always thought someone was missing the mark by not undermining the competition by pricing their gas at $2.15.7 or .5.

Will they next want to price our hamburgers for us?  How about Oyster Crackers and hammers?  Wouldn’t it save a lot of hassle to make all pricing, after figuring in the tax, equal whole dollars?  If an item is just under $2.00 then the state could force the business owner to price it at $1.88.  With a 6% tax rate this would make the item $1.99 rounded off to $2.00.  No more change, saving our mints billions.  AND, business owners would have one less thing to think about.  Another WOW.

It seems that cops like to run without lights and sirens when in hot pursuit of the bad guys and more often of late they have accidents because of their silent running.  House Bill 329 addresses this issue.  Instead of requiring cops to make it known to unsuspecting motorists that cops are flying through red lights without warning, our leadership wants to make it legal to fly through red lights without warning.  I say just mount radar guided missiles on the front of police cruisers and if a pursuit begins, fire off a couple of rockets into the rear of the “car of interest”.  This puts an end to those reckless and often deadly chases and leaves no doubt who is in charge.

House Bill 341 will allow the sale of alcoholic beverages after 12:00 p.m. on Election Day.  The reason for the ancient law of no alcoholic beverage sales on Election Day stems from vote buying with whiskey and voting while drunk.  I guess we’ve reached such a plateau in political honesty that this law is no longer needed.  ALERT, this law was never needed.  A good buyer of votes could always stock up on half pints well before Election Day and dole out the bribes without regard to stores being open.  As for those who vote drunk – if they are of a mind to vote drunk they will vote drunk regardless of the stores being open.  A good drunk voter will have a handy stash to get him through Election Day.  Besides, what is wrong with voting drunk?  One has about the same chance of electing a poor leader whether drunk or sober.  This doesn’t change the caliber of candidates.

House Bill 350 makes it illegal to poison our food or water supply and gives the act of doing so a new name - Agroterrorism.  Hold me, I’m scared.  I guess would-be Agroterrorists currently have carte blanche on sprinkling Anthrax on beets.  How many illegal aliens do we have in this country?  Oh that’s right, we really don’t know, so we guess it to be between 12 and 20 million.  Don’t a whole bunch of these undocumented invaders work in food harvesting?  I guess would-be Agroterrorists with no paper trail to follow will take heed that there is a new law, should it pass, that restricts poisoning of food crops and water.  Pass the spinach.

These proposed laws and many others can be viewed at the Kentucky Votes website.  If you are interested in the rules of freedom, you should already be following what is going on.

I recently received a copy of “The 5000 Year Leap” from my friends at eco-Logic Powerhouse.  This is a very interesting book and a must read for patriots and others concerned with the state of decline of our freedoms.  It was written in 1981 by Cleon Skousen and in its seventh printing.

This book looks at the founding of our country and puts things in a perspective that most anyone can understand.  There is no heavy reading.

Here is an excerpt concerning “Ruler’s Law”.  I found it especially interesting since I can relate to how this list reflects many ideologies of today, a fact that I found disturbing.

1.                         Authority under Ruler’s Law is nearly always established by force, violence, and conquest.

2.                         Therefore, all sovereign power is considered to be in the conqueror or his descendants.

3.                         The people are not equal, but are divided into classes and are all looked upon as “subjects” of the King.

4.                         The entire country is considered to be the property of the ruler.  He speaks of it as his “realm”.

5.                         The thrust of governmental power is from the top down, not from the people upward.

6.                         The people have no unalienable rights.  The “king” giveth and the king taketh away.

7.                         Government is by the whims of men, not by the fixed rule of law which the people need in order to govern their affairs with confidence.

8.                         The ruler issues edicts which are called “the law”.  He then interprets the law and enforces it, thus maintaining tyrannical control over the people.

9.                         Under Ruler’s Law, problems are always solved by issuing more edicts or laws, setting up more bureaus, harassing the people with more regulators, and charging the people for these “services” by continually adding to their burden of taxes.

10.                    Freedom is never looked upon as a viable solution to anything.

11.                    The long history of Ruler’s Law is one of blood and terror, both anciently and in modern times.  Under it the people are stratified into an aristocracy of the ruler’s retinue while the lot of the common people is one of perpetual poverty, excessive taxation, stringent regulations, and a continuous existence of misery.

This all sounds so familiar – with twists.  Buy the book, become enlightened.  Google search it; there are several sources that sell the book for 12 to 20 dollars.  In the meantime, enjoy your ball game, beer and brats and by all means tie up the water cooler at work with talk of who won the game and why.  We’ll watch the laws and report back to you.  We wouldn’t want you to have to think about anything except game scores.

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