A friend sent me an email containing the following phrase:
one of those Red book things you get free from the government when you have a baby
The government is a criminal organisation. It is made up of people who think it’s okay to routinely steal half of your money. If you don’t keep quiet and pay up they’ll threaten to steal more of your money, and ultimately send around goons to kidnap you.
They are intent on growing their organisation, but like all criminals they are cowards who can’t admit to themselves they are evil. They avoid feelings of guilt by inventing a series of imaginary hobgoblins that the populace then clamour to be saved from. Salvation, of course, lies in more government minions whose pay justifies yet more extortion.
Not content with mere extortion, they also want to tell you how to live your life. There is no limit to this. They will tell you what to eat and drink, who you may and may not do business with, the manner in which you may do business and what you may build on your property. This is partly so that they can be seen to be doing things to solve problems and justify their existence to the cowed populace, but mainly because along for the ride are the type of people who enjoy telling others what to do.
But the real power is in the future, and the children are the future. The government, composed entirely of people you haven’t met and didn’t choose to associate with, wants to be intimately involved in your life from cradle to grave. There are red books. There are strangers who invite themselves into your home to snoop on you and your baby. There are day prisons that children are forced to attend until a predetermined age that is forever being increased.
No organisation has ever taken such a complete interest in your life.
And yet they are inept. These are people whose track record of childcare includes abducting teenagers and allowing them to be molested by perverts. They never achieve their stated aims, except when those aims are to expand their own interests. Their crowning achievement is to meddle so thoroughly that the populace expects it, believes that their business is helped by the government’s meddling in other people’s, and asks for more of it.
I object on principle to the idea of strangers telling me how I should raise my children, and that these *criminals* pretend I should be grateful for their advice on the matter is an outrage beyond polite description.