-Caveat Lector- From: Florida and the Marching Morons http://www.zolatimes.com/V4.46/marching_morons.html Bi-Partisan Robbery Nearly 99 percent of the voters in this election came down in favor of an enlarged state and in support of mammoth increases in state-sanctioned robbery. More billions for education! (Ignore the fact that our schools deteriorate and our children become dumber the more dollars we throw at them.) More billions for prescription drug coverage and social security payments for senior citizens! (Ignore the fact that our elders control the bulk of the wealth in this country and already enjoy massive welfare subsidies for their health care and retirement.) More billions for defense! (Ignore the fact that the primary reason our military is simultaneously both the best in the world and in its worst shape in quite some time is due to the Machiavellian maneuverings of the Clintonistas as they send our personnel to die in foreign lands functioning as "policemen" rather than the soldiers they were trained - and meant - to be.) The irony is that nearly sixty-percent of voters indicated they favored a less powerful government. I guess that since Bush would take us to Hades at forty-miles-an-hour and Gore would do so at eighty, the electorate believes that siding with Bush really translates into "less" government. Or maybe a majority of voters in this country really is moronic enough to believe the transparent outrages of Gore when he proclaims that he has shrunk the State and that he agrees that the "era of big government" is over. So much for the iron hand of the majority. The protesters clogging the thoroughfares of Palm Beach County represent in microcosm the flipside of this travesty. Pay no attention, they demand, to the fact that the vast majority of voters in their jurisdiction - whether young or old - somehow managed to decipher the "intricacies" of their ballots and cast their votes as they desired. No, no. Because members of this minority found themselves "confused" and intimidated and too frigging stupid to ask for assistance or to request another ballot when they screwed up a straightforward and simple procedure, everyone else - not only in their own county but in the entire country - must be held hostage to their insipid ultimatums. No personal responsibility. No accountability. No accepting the consequences of their actions. No, no. It's the duty of everyone else to assuage their "feelings" and "make it right." If we don't cower before their self-righteous indignation and crumple before their rantings, they'll pout and hold their collective breath until we succumb to their incessant nonsense. And if that doesn't work, they'll sue us, by-god; the All-American answer to every travail faced by the gutless gnomes who gnaw ravenously at the ankles of the rest of us. This is the same mentality, the same instinctive, primitive, and irrational attitudes and actions that gave us such gems as the American with Disabilities Act (in which the infirm of the world rule the able); the wondrous joys of Political Correctness (in which free speech is free...as long as you agree with the left-leaning bigots of the world); the compassion of Hate Crimes (in which the State purports to read your mind and punish you not merely for your deeds but for your thoughts, as well); and the glories of Fairness, Equality, and Affirmative Action (in which justice is irrelevant and the principle that some are "more equal" than others is enshrined in law and crammed down the throats of the majority). The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says: Section 1: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. While we no longer have overt slavery in this country, our involuntary servitude increases with each passing year and each farce of an election we endure. This nation is a hair's-breadth from slipping into the pit that is the tyranny of pure democracy. Bad enough that the 99 percent willingly march into that bottomless quagmire. Worse still that they are intent on dragging the rest of us into the muck along with them. Last time I checked, I've violated no crime nor been convicted of any. (Not that such fine moral distinctions are much protection in this era of asset forfeiture and State powers of unlimited taxation and regulation.) Congress does nothing to protect us from these encroachments since it is the prime wolf in this sheep's pen we call the United States of America. 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