Nanny Staters & Other Looters

"All the other kids are doing it." And your Mom would ask if all the other kids are going to jump off a bridge would you want to. Evidently some people would.

And there is the other old cliche: "You can run but you can’t hide." I live in a small town, about 4,200 within the city limits. Unfortunately, Nanny State malaise infecting bigger towns and our federal government has done so here. We too have those with looters mentality who wish to build a perfect utopia in their own image, a secular and socialistic political system based on moral relativism.

This time our local Nanny Staters demanded our town immediately enact "confiscator" land legislation. Why? Because numerous other cities have—and these people we are told are highly educated and intelligent. Does that mean it is the right thing to do? Nanny Staters think so. Others of course see it otherwise.

Under Nanny State "confiscator" land legislation, properties affected will in essence no longer belong to the owners. Value in their land and homes stolen. To be in compliance with the legislation’s rules and regulations, not required in our county, would burden local taxpayers with more unnecessary costs and bureaucracy. But, when you are building a perfect world in your own image, you must dismiss the cost to the individual—costs in both finances and individual liberties.

Nanny State malaise is both a national political problem and a moral problem. In this case bureaucrats are given power to break a legal contract and take away the individual’s use of his or her property for the community’s ascetic good—possibly without compensation.

A contract or promise, however, is a moral obligation. An individual’s word was once honored and considered a strong contract, a promise, a moral obligation. Today, even a written contract or promise mean nothing to Nanny Staters.

Always hoping to buy support, Nanny Staters offer the "fear, greed and envy" carrot, the potential of losing public funds if the proposed rules or legislation are not enacted immediately. Using someone else’s money exposes their looting mentality: "If we don’t get the funds someone else will." Taking from one individual through government force to financially or ascetically benefit another is thievery—an attack on our treasure. And in this case, breaking a contract, is an attack on our God given right to life, liberty, and property.

As one local Nanny Stater explained: "...property rights and our system of capitalism to seek profits are no longer sacred . . . our individual rights and an individual’s profits may have to give way for the sake of the environment . . . "

From Washington D.C. to my small town, those seeking to build a perfect world in their own image do not recognize our Constitutional right to life, liberty, and property as God given. To these collectivists all rights—including our religious freedom—are government given and therefore government can alter or take away those rights.

A Nanny of course is a British child nurse. Our Nanny Staters, however, are a child’s worse nightmare. They believe the general public—you and I—consists of not-to-bright children who must be directed and punished as they deem necessary. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and their regimes took the Nanny State to its ultimate destination. A direction our Nanny Staters in Washington D.C. are rapidly taking us.

As these secular progressives’ tighten their collectivist grip on our Nation, we hear the sucking sound of our Nation’s moral vacuum as more and more young people are sucked into the collectivist state’s relative ethics and popular immoralities.

America is still the world’s greatest country. What of the future? We have a choice. We can quietly hold to our standards and values, leaving our grandchildren and institutions to the Nanny Staters who wish to control every aspect of our life. The Nannys wish to create a secular and socialistic political system, a system that robs success and rewards failure, a system that seeks to replace any sense of God with moral relativism, a system to replace church and family with the dehumanizing state. Or we can publically resist evil and speak out.

It is not too late. But what are you going to do?

Be Informed Be Involved _________ Michael E. Odell

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