Reblogged: No Planning for Freedom

[Gus Van Horn blog]

John Stossel relaysa tale of government intrusiveness that should astound -- although it is apparently par for the course today's regulatory state. Here's a sample:

The inspectors told Marty[, a magician by trade, on one of 

ten

unannounced visits to his home]  that the Animal Welfare Act required him to file paperwork demonstrating that he had "a comprehensive written disaster plan detailing everything I would do with my rabbit in the event of a fire, a flood, a tornado, an ice storm."

The federal forms list "common emergencies likely to happen to your facility ... not necessarily limited to: structural fire, electrical outage, disruption in clean water or feed supply, disruption in access to facility (e.g., road closures), intentional attack on the facilities ... earthquake, landslide/mudslide/avalanche ... "

Our government should worry a tenth as much for the rights of its citizens as it does for the welfare of captive rabbits. If it did, it would confine itself to acting within its proper scope, which would frequently entail acting (and costing) far less than it does now.

-- CAV

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[softwareNerd]

This news-story  is about a lady who was fined 1,000 pounds, and given a 2 month curfew monitored via bracelet, for selling a gold-fish to a 14-year old boy. To make the story even more ridiculous, it was a sting operation!

 

This is the type of government action that is plausible in the abstract: surely we don't want pet-owners selling a dog to some clueless 8 year old!

And then, the age creeps up... maybe there's some actual 14 year old who buys a dog and tortures it, who knows...

And, then some animal-rights folks can say: well, fish have feelings too

And, someone says that even adults should be monitored when they're using "working animals"... 

And, wait... a magician's rabbit is a working animal too...

Edited November 26, 2013 by softwareNerd

[Ben Archer]