Perhaps not as grand as the topic H was trying to push in his thread, but personally, it's an interesting observation.
You notice how the left decries how the Government is trying to snoop, to dare to actually monitor foreign calls coming in from suspected terrorists, literally trying to pry into our personal lives. You notice how it's almost (read, NOT all) the same people who have decided they know better, and that they will impart their superior wisdom (and control) via the Government regulating just about everything in our lives.
Over here in California, we're watching a socialist revolution in the legislature, with some of the bills being proposed or already in law. Everything from what lightbulb you can use, to how you're not to eat transfats, can't talk on cell phone in a car without a headset (though the distraction factor is pretty much identical), & who can forget our recent Anti-spanking bill. Now we have the proposal to make the HPV virus mandatory to girls. Parents need not be present, the Government knows better.
These bills represent a fraction of the population involved in the repercussions of morbid obesity, traffic accidents, Child abuse, etc. But the nanny state knows better than you, than I, than us meager peasants. But this kind of Government intrusion is advocated, even celebrated by the left. Yet when it comes to trying to protect the country........Ooooooooh that evil Big Brother, and the moron Bush
