Junk Food Nation – Protection from What?
Los Angelos offers so much, in the way of services for poor people. Warm weather, good sources of trash, access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and now protection from obesity from McDonald’s? I suppose we should be singing praises for the government who has our heart and lifestyle in mind… They’re willing to take away our rights to protect us from ourselves? What?
There’s a limitation factor that restricts my right to choose, when government comes in and steps over that boundary. I may or may not be a big fan of McDonald’s, that isn’t the issue, the question is if the government is taking away rights, removing a BUSINESS from a district, what are they replacing it with? More subsidies? More money for food stamps? More limitations of choices? More fulfillment of the controlling factors they already have over those who are “in the system”? How much control is there over our lives, and how much control does the government need?
Whether I as a person agree or disagree with mainstream nutrition coming from fast food, I have to consider the impact of government choosing diet as a control issue over lives they have no business controlling.
Many years ago, the government began demanding that we wear seatbelts in vehicles. Motorcyclists do not wear seatbelts. In fact, motorcyclists fought and won the right to choose NOT to wear helmets in most states. Our rights as adults are disappearing under the guise of protecting us. Say WHAT?
Protecting us from what? FREEDOM? I choose to remain free and have the right to choose where I eat, what I eat, and when I eat. So, what about those poor people who don’t even know why the McDonald’s fast food places are disappearing from their neighborhoods? What about those who are dependant on the dollar menu for an occasional break from cooking in their hot Los Angelos kitchens? What about the fact that those people are being protected right out of the freedom to choose?
How many other rights have been taken away from citizens of the United States under the guise of PROTECTING US?
Are we really willing to continue giving up our rights in order to be protected from er… having the right to choose?
Official government vehicles proudly wear the label “To protect and to serve” but do they?
Isn’t the biggest reason we have police and government to PROTECT OUR RIGHTS? Since when does Protecting our Rights mean we have no right to choose? Isn’t that a depletion of our rights?
In the process of giving American’s more of what they want, our government has stretched beyond their boundaries of protecting our rights from being distorted and discontinued to protecting us from having choice. There’s a BIG difference between the two.
Consider for a moment, you give your children a choice between eating what you prepare for dinner or preparing their own dinner, or you give your children the choice to eat what you prepare for dinner or go to jail? Is there a choice in the second?
In the case of offering children choices, you’re the parent and you are teaching them to make good choices. But still, you would not give them a choice of jail time if they weren’t hungry. As an adult, do we really need to be threatened to make choices for ourselves?
Why are our Rights disappearing?
Who gave government the RIGHT to take away our RIGHTS as adult voting citizens? We must take back our rights, and give government back limits, restraint for Government intervention into our lives is a good thing. Restraint on our lives from the government is NOT.
Speak up California, New York, and everyone else BEFORE you lose your right to choose!
2 Responses to “Junk Food Nation – Protection from What?”
August 26th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
So well written, well thought through and so unfortunately the present truth in our country.
I did some research on the net yesterday on homeland security. I was appalled at the laws that have been instituted and the shifting in governmental agencies that has transpired since 9/11 (and even some before). Presidential powers are increasing as well as slowly becoming immune to the same laws that apply to the rest of America’s citizens.
Where were Americans when the government gained the right to frisk ordinary, innocent citizens? Airports are not so free a space anymore. I read that now, if you forget your ID when you go through airport security, you are placed on a suspected terrorist list that goes out to all law enforcement agencies; can this be real?
We are adults; as such we should have the right to eat at McDonalds, not wear a seat belt or a helmet if on a motorcycle. As for a child, by all means – protect them so long as you maintain that delicate balance between adding protection – while not removing necessary parental rights.
Start researching, folks. Start tracking how and what your so-called ‘elected’ leaders are slipping by you while you so blindly entrust your freedom and rights to them. We MUST do more politically in our lives than vote every few years. Our ‘representatives’ are mis-representing us right out of our constitutional freedoms.
Someone told me the other day that a law is in process that will allow police to immediately confiscate your vehicle if you forgot your license…when you ran out of the house late to pick up your child from school? I think I’ll research that one! It’s just too absurd….isn’t it?
August 26th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Tonight, Kenton was pulled over for WALKING DOWN THE STREET. I’m so miffed I can’t see straight yet. It was before dark and he was asked if he was on drugs, because he was walking down the street instead of the sidewalk.
1 There is no Freaking sidewalk.
2 Everyone on that street has a dog bigger than he is and they jump the fence ALL the time.
3 If they have so much time on their hands to pull over my son who is walking down the street in broad daylight, don’t you think they could check out the home of a known druggie down the street from us???
It seems our laws are protecting the wrong people!
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