Blue Collar Muse

By the time I got to RedState a bit ago, I was already neck deep in stories about government, at all levels, simply ignoring rules and laws they don’t like. It seems to be approaching epidemic proportions. It seems to be true regardless of whether or not the government in question is local, state or federal. It is true whether the officials involved are on the Left or on the Right.

In the last few days I’ve reported on Jim Cooper, Democratic Representative from Tennessee, ignoring common sense and the law by illegally obtaining information from a password protected private website. Despite literally confessing to having violated the law during a committee meeting, the Congressman will likely face no criminal charges.

This morning I posted on Eminent Domain abuse by the City of Nashville. Despite the clear language of the 5th Amendment’s Takings Clause, the city is moving to seize a citizen’s property to give to a private developer in the name of public use. Only in government can you so distort the meaning of words.

And when I get to RedState today, I find that the administrator of Atlanta’s airport has no intention of complying with the recent change in Georgia law which permits concealed carry permit holders to be armed in areas previously off limits to them. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport General Manager Ben DeCosta , ” …announced that, even though they are not breaking the law, anyone with a firearm in the areas that the new law allows people to carry will be arrested.”

Laws? We don’t care about your stinking laws!

Only when the people insist on their rights and are willing to go to great lengths to do so, will government be forced back to their proper role of servant to the people. Government as Master is a nightmare scenario playing out on stages across the country. It needs to stop.

Blue

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