Liberty Maven

Listen, everyone, don’t let people distract you with nonsense about fiscal responsibility within the government or holding our leaders accountable. And definitely DON’T worry about the future of the U.S. Dollar. After all, the fundamentals of the economy are strong and we have REAL problems to worry about, such as imprisoning dangerous soda spillers, foreclosing on a disabled man who parked a car in his very own driveway, AND, most disturbing of all, people trying to peacefully exercise their freedom of speech!

Let’s start with the deadly soda, because we definitely all need to work together to proactively hunt down dangerous felons like this.  Let me paint the picture.  It’s an easy one.  We’ve all had parents, at least two, anyway.  And some of us have even cared for them when they got sick.  And most of us have had a soda or two in our lives.  So this should be pretty easy to picture.  Natalie Walters, a lady who routinely takes her father to the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center for treatment, also decided to callously take advantage of her right to travel, and regularly visited the cafeteria.  Her routine was to refill her mug with Diet Coke for anywhere from $1 to $1.50, depending on the cashier at the time and his or her ability to accurately type in the right codes and digits on a keyboard.  Well, imagine her surprise on Aug. 20, when Walters filled her mug with Diet Coke, [and] the clerk charged $3.80.

“I told her that cannot be right and asked to talk to the manager,” Walters said.

The manager told Walters the price is correct.

Walters decided she didn’t want to pay that much and offered to return the soda, she said. But the manager told her there was no way to accept the returned soda and Walters had to pay. Walters refused, and she said she was angry by this point, and she poured the soda onto the counter.

The manager banned Walters from the cafeteria.

But, wait, there’s more!  A LOT more!  Officials realized their debt to the safety of the community, and felt morally compelled to go through every piece of cafeteria and hospital videotape, tracking her insurgent movements, tracing her back to her ill father; going through his medical records; and justifiably upsetting him by interrupting him at his own dental appointment to let him know that Big Brother requested his daughter’s presence.

Flash forward to September 19th, and Natalie Walters is a mere weeks away from her October 8th arraignment date related to the two counts brought against her by U.S. attorney Tom Moss, each of which charges carries a maximum sentence of six months in federal prison.  Well, I sure hope they throw the book at her.  It’s too bad the maximum jail term would only be one year.  What are we going to do if she is released from prison and spills some more sodas?  Oh, wait.  They won’t give her any sodas in prison, will they?

No, no, no…  don’t let yourself be distracted by the latest headline about a growing tally of bailouts, which could easily exceed $5 trillion over the next ten days.  Focus with me.  We’ve got Milwaukee resident Peter Tubic to contend with.  Would you believe that this out of control citizen actually had the audacity to park his own van in his own driveway?  What is this world coming to?  Well, sure, despite his many physical and mental illnesses, he managed to pay his taxes and contribute to society.  But, hey, that just doesn’t cut it.  This menace had his van parked in his driveway WITHOUT license plates!  How could the city and the county function with transgressions like this?  It’s lucky for everyone that the city was nice enough not to shut down all of the roads in that neighborhood, simply because of this sociopath’s selfish recklessness.  Then, to add insult to injury, this guy commits the ultimate offense and ignores Big Brother by not paying or even responding to his $50 ticket.  Well, hey, the City of Milwaukee had no choice.  He forced their hands.  What could they do but charge usrous fees and penalties, bringing the total to $2,600, and forcibly extract it from him by foreclosing on his $245,000 house?  Hey, he left them no other options.  He’s lucky that’s all they did to him!  He got off far too easy, if you ask me!

The saddest story of all, though, is one that is especially difficult for me, personally.  Being a huge fan of the show “Seinfeld”, I derived life-changing benefits from the profound message of the final episode, in which the 4 main characters were arrested and eventually jailed for doing nothing. Unfortunately, it appears that The Police State of Minnesota located 284 people in a park who just didn’t “get it” and needed to be taught the harsh lesson of reality that if you do nothing in a park, particularly as a group, then you are just begging to have yourself hauled away by SWAT Police in riot gear.  I mean, what were these people thinking?  That’s worse than Freedom of Speech or exercising The Right To Assemble.  What is this country coming to?  Why are people talking about this rag of a paper called The Constitution and questioning authority?  What’s next?  Are people going to expect to pay low taxes or actually keep some of the money that they earn?  I weep for the future, if we do not wake up very, very soon…