Ensuring our kids respect the government’s power

It’s taken me a week to write this post because I was so bothered by it that all I could think was “you’re kidding me, right?” and “Really? No, REALLY?”

I thought I was going to move on a little from this topic and talk about protecting our right to choose and pushing back against government overreach in this week’s post. But what I saw on my local news last Tuesday was enough to make my blood boil and write one more post on the topic of government overreach in what’s turned into a sort of mini-series on the topic.

Unrecognized invasion of government

After my last post, in which I asserted that we are losing our right to choose by being presented with false choices and because of our lack of questioning, I wanted to specifically focus on that second reason.

I am of the opinion that when we are actively engaged in honest questioning, the false choices, half-truths and downright lies are quickly exposed. We never get into the situation I was in in April with the TSA because we never accept that false choice as acceptable when we have an actively, honestly questioning citizenry.

Losing our right to choose

I’ve been thinking about this post for a while now – and more and more in the last couple of weeks. I’ve had a hard time putting quite into the words that I wanted though.

I think that this issue is so close to me that it’s hard to break it down in a few hundred words.

In my last post I wrote “Neither [choice], in the end, is really a choice. It’s just an illusion.”

I’m afraid that by using my experience with the TSA, the message got lost.