I know it seems that I harp on this a lot, but when basic human freedoms that Americans used to assume they had disappear, shouldn’t there be some harping?
It looks like we will have a lot less theater in Minnesota as authorities will try to crack down on all the new theaters which have opened up in the light of the Tobacco Taliban’s fraudulently-labeled “Freedom to Breathe” Act.
Although the story made Time, it looks like free theater’s day in the sun will be brief. Somehow, we all must have known it would be, since the demonstrated haughtiness and intolerance of the act’s advocates has been well noticed over several years.
We submit to fingerprinting and drug tests to apply for even the most minor jobs. We allow ourselves to be almost strip-searched to go into our public buildings or an airport concourse. We say, “I don’t smoke so why would I care?” We beg our authorities to enact things like "photo cop." We continue to lose liberty and nobody seems to care.
I have suggested before that we need to change our National Anthem from the one we have to one less martial and less jingoistic and blasphemous [read verse 4]. Now I think there is another reason. “The Star-Spangled Banner” is no longer true.
This is not the land of the free and is the home to very few brave.
[Earlier posts include: Free [10/1//2007]; Two Followups [1/4/2008] and others under labels "Freedom" and "Smoking."
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