Strike The Root Blog

Nadya Suleman is getting hate mail and death threats for having brought eight more babies into an environment where she cannot afford to raise them without outside help. I’m not at all surprised at the hate, but I’m very disturbed by it. When people are forced to pay for other people’s poor choices, they start to feel as if they have the right to control them.

This will only grow. Once Obama shoves through his massive (unconstitutional, as if that mattered) increases in government control of the health care system, we will start to see even more threats and attempts to control. Today, the food fascists use the force of law to ban specific food substances they deem unhealthy. Tomorrow, more of the same. We stand to have far fewer choices and freedom in all areas: recreation, dining, family planning, speech, self defense, and so on. The war against you and your freedoms continues as the government grows unchecked. Your neighbor already checks your trash can for recycling violations; tomorrow he will look for discarded Frito bags and then blow the whistle.
Freedom includes the right to make poor choices and also to suffer as a result. I note that Suleman received compassion from many of her fellow human beings, and I’m sure even those giving her compassion have offered sage advice. That’s how things are really supposed to work, but the pro-government-growth forces don’t believe in it.

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