[High Praise! to Word Around the Net]
Even just thirty years ago nobody seriously believed the government would monitor all our phonecalls and drag people off to prison. Nobody seriously believed that you could be arrested for how the dust blew off your property when you plowed a field or where you smoked. Nobody believed you could be fined or jailed for who you baked a cake for or didn’t. And already by that time the federal government was far too vast.
Might be worth reading the whole thing.
(By the way, I forgot to bookmark where I saw this quote. If it was posted at your blog, let me know so I can update)
Often, when I’m pointing out just how far down the slope we’ve slipped, I’m challenged by someone claiming that I’m just exaggerating. I then ask them if I had told them 25 years ago that it would be illegal to smoke in a BAR! what they would have said to me then. That typically shuts them up.