I remember, a long time ago now, when in my twenties, I had a conversation with my parents after dinner. In the “olden” days we used to have conversations with family members of all generations…I remember many with my grandparents, especially Grandpa…he liked a good debate.
Anyway, the conversation with my parents was about the new seatbelt laws. It was the 1980s…
I thought that the seatbelt laws were a good thing. Of course wearing seatbelts would save lives. It should be the law. My parents stated their position,they believed that yes, seatbelts saved lives, but why should it be a law? People would understand that seatbelts were beneficial and could choose to wear them. A law was not necessary. How would it even be enforced? Their position got me thinking. Yes, people could, and should decide for themselves. We are a free nation after all…aren’t we?
Now, decades later many of us found ourselves at odds with “the law” as to whether or not we should be mandated to wear face masks…or be required to be injected with a shot to supposedly protect ourselves and others…even though the scientific data seems to support the opposite…
The slow creep of government intervention has sadly graduated to warped speed. Chief Justice Antonin Scalia warned when opposing the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act that if we were required by law to buy health insurance by the government, couldn’t we be required by the government to eat broccoli if it was deemed by the government as good for us??
Have we arrived at that fore-warned end? I fear we have. Our government that was intended to represent us, now has convinced all too many of “We the People” that they, “Our Representatives” are the supreme authority.
“We the People” must WAKE UP and push back against those that are chipping away at our unalienable rights…before those rights are chopped down and left to rot and never take root again.
Diana Erbio is a freelance writer and author of “Coming to America: A Girl Struggles to Find her Way in a New World.”