thinkingmama (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thinkingmama) wrote,@ 2006-12-21 17:13:00 |
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Remember the Garden of Eden?
Not much has changed, unfortunately. Remember how the objective in that particular garden was to, well, you know, just do what God said, as I recall it. Now granted, that's not an easy task these days, but the big thing there was not eating of a certain tree. Eve was tempted by a serpent--some of you might remember his cameo--who told her something like, "You shall not surely die," completely disputing the word of God. Well, guess who won that battle. Not Adam, not Eve, certainly not their descendants. Meanwhile, many women seem not to have changed much in the last few thousand years, listening to deceit and believing it to be true. In this case, it's the deceit of the state, with the fascist help of that wonderful freedom-limiting organization, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). From what I understand, what started out as a private effort to curb drinking and driving, the result of one mom's crusade to keep from happening to other children what happened to her daughter, who was killed by a drunk driver.
This organization has mushroomed, and I'm not even sure that the original founder is still with it, into a police state patsy that, last I heard other than the following story, is trying to install breathalyzers in every automobile. Yes, every one. The state seems to have taken the form of a serpent here and, unfortunately, many moms are turning into modern-day Eves, tempting us all to take a bite of the fruit. And because the government owns the roads--and we see how good they are at management when we learn that a gate left open by the Bureau of Land Management led to James Kim's tragic death--it becomes easy to see how an organization that starts out with good intentions can be led down the primrose path toward totalitarianism. Such has happened with MADD, leading me to begin to respect the sign that I saw during college, when all this MADD business was blossoming, that said DAMM, or Drunks Against Mad Mothers.
What's so very sad, however, is that moms go along with this police state, encouraging it, praising it, and truly wanting more lordship by the government, never thinking that this fascist thinking may well lead our children to live in a country that's much less free than the one we live in today, if that can be imagined.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?gui
Not much has changed, unfortunately. Remember how the objective in that particular garden was to, well, you know, just do what God said, as I recall it. Now granted, that's not an easy task these days, but the big thing there was not eating of a certain tree. Eve was tempted by a serpent--some of you might remember his cameo--who told her something like, "You shall not surely die," completely disputing the word of God. Well, guess who won that battle. Not Adam, not Eve, certainly not their descendants. Meanwhile, many women seem not to have changed much in the last few thousand years, listening to deceit and believing it to be true. In this case, it's the deceit of the state, with the fascist help of that wonderful freedom-limiting organization, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). From what I understand, what started out as a private effort to curb drinking and driving, the result of one mom's crusade to keep from happening to other children what happened to her daughter, who was killed by a drunk driver.
This organization has mushroomed, and I'm not even sure that the original founder is still with it, into a police state patsy that, last I heard other than the following story, is trying to install breathalyzers in every automobile. Yes, every one. The state seems to have taken the form of a serpent here and, unfortunately, many moms are turning into modern-day Eves, tempting us all to take a bite of the fruit. And because the government owns the roads--and we see how good they are at management when we learn that a gate left open by the Bureau of Land Management led to James Kim's tragic death--it becomes easy to see how an organization that starts out with good intentions can be led down the primrose path toward totalitarianism. Such has happened with MADD, leading me to begin to respect the sign that I saw during college, when all this MADD business was blossoming, that said DAMM, or Drunks Against Mad Mothers.
What's so very sad, however, is that moms go along with this police state, encouraging it, praising it, and truly wanting more lordship by the government, never thinking that this fascist thinking may well lead our children to live in a country that's much less free than the one we live in today, if that can be imagined.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/nat?gui
