Opinion: Stop the steal … of our freedom! – The CT Mirror

The sign in front of the local variety store said No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service!

So I strolled in, sporting my Sunday-best shoes and shirt, plus an overlong red necktie. But no pants, just for variety. The sign didnt say anything about pants. I left before the police got there.

Where does the United States Constitution say I cant dress any dab burn way I please anywhere I take a notion to mosey?

If you stare, thats your problem, pal.

My fellow oppressed Americans, this is yet another example of our vanishing freedoms. And it started way before the current totalitarian mask-wearing/needle-jabbing campaign.

But this latest is the greatest infringement of all. Youre telling me I cant go to a sold-out Hot Chili Peppers concert unvaccinated, mask-less and symptomatic and expectorate over everyone within a 30-foot radius? Man, we have sunk mighty low in this country.

But wait, theres more. How about casual Fridays? I cant be casual on Monday? Or Wednesday? Or on Benito Mussolinis birthday?

Now take cars (and they will!). In case you missed the summons, you got to register your vehicles with the government, each and every gas-guzzler, every couple of years, too. Did your great-great-grandpa register his horse and buggy? Methinks not! Is motor vehicle registration mentioned once in the Constitution? I believe it says only something like this: The right of the people to own, rent or lease high emission conveyances shall not be infringed

Dont get me started on emission controls.

It wont be long before they come for our pickups and pry our cold dead hands from the steering wheels. Well all be walking to the variety store in our skivvies.

While we still have our vehicles, Johnny Law says we cant drive 100 mph in a school zone. Why not? I figure its a good way to teach kids to look both ways! You should see those little dickens jump and hop.

And whats with this blood alcohol content nonsense? They keep lowering the limit every few years. I dont know about you, but I drive way better after pounding a six-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Want proof? Well, here I am, still churning out cogent commentary, aint I?

I trace what ails us all the way back to the Ten Commandments and Charlton Heston. Dont covet thy neighbors wife! Im telling you, Charlie, shes like a total babe. Saint Peter will understand.

Now theyre even telling us we cant bust into the peoples house the United States Capitol and smash up a few lecterns and whatnot that we paid for with our own tax money. OK, we chased a few congressmen and senators about the joint but they looked like they could use the exercise.

Well, that about does it, Id say. Let freedom ring!

David Holahan is a freelance writer from East Haddam.

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Opinion: Stop the steal ... of our freedom! - The CT Mirror