Borepatch 101: Freedom

We are finding out that freedom is more fragile than we had thought.  We're finding out that there are quite a lot of people who like their freedom, but dislike the idea of other people's freedom.

Quite a few of these remember the glory days of their youth, when they were rebelling against a stuffy older generation, agitating for freedom.  They don't seem to realize that they've become what they despised.

As the Public Sector expands, we're made worse off.

If we actually got something for the freedom we lose, that would be one thing.  We don't.  This post includes the quote Why is the only thing in this building that's supposed to suck, not?  It actually happened.

Nobody thought that the Government would crack down on surfing.  Well not the surfers, but the people who make surf boards.  It seems that the problem wasn't that the government could show that the boards were dangerous, but that the company couldn't show that they weren't.

How to kill the nation's fourth largest city.  Hint: the Progressive Agenda was involved, and people thought that the Government could do a better job than the rest of us.

The Progressive Agenda screws the poor.  The numbers don't lie.

Why NASA was bound to ultimately fail.

Actions have consequences.  Actions taken on the "Public's" behalf are no different.

Ignoring the cost of government action doesn't mean that people don't die.

You can't eat yourself thin, even if you're the government.

Regulation gives rise to all sorts of things that nobody anticipated.  Like grave robbing.  Of course, we're ever so much smarter today.

All people are equal.  But some people - the Government - are more equal than others.

Who needs all those workplace safety laws, anyway?

If someone were preventing people from rescuing a family in a burning house, you'd call the police.  What do you do if it's the police preventing the rescue?

Who needs clean hospitals?  It seems that the answer is "not the UK".