Guest Post by Eric Peters
How long do you suppose it will be before they simply close down the roads for saaaaaaaafety? Why not? Every dumbed-down traffic law on the books is premised on the same idea. Slow down. Don’t pass (ever). Only make a turn when the light goes green.
Driving is dangerous! Drivers are dangerous!
Why not follow this to its logical conclusion?
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It’s already being done by on some roads – those controlled by the head Uncle in DC rather than the little uncles at the state and county level.
I happen to live very nearby to the Blue Ridge Parkway, which runs from Northern Virginia through the state – parallel to Interstate 81, if you’re interested in Googling it – and on down into North Carolina. The Parkway is federal property – the land having been expropriated from its former owners back in the 1930s on the orders of Franklin Roosevelt, America’s Mussolini – who sent armed government workers to remove the people who’d been living on the land for generations.
Anyhow, Uncle now owns the land. And he – via his minions, armed government workers – regularly closes down access to the Parkway via gates that are placed every so many miles. This is often done for no discernible legitimate reason.
The threat of snow, for instance.
Not actual snow. The possibility that it might snow, later. Down go the gates. The road is closed – often for days on end – except, of course, to the minions of Uncle. The armed government workers who patrol the Parkway, which becomes their private roadway for as long as the gates are down.
This is all done in the name of . . . saaaaaaaaaaaaaafety. It might be slick! “Someone” – not an any particular person – might not be able to deal with this. We are are all presumed to be inept. Therefore, none will be allowed to use the roads their taxes paid to build and and keep up.
Except, of course, the armed government workers. Somehow, every last one of them is presumed able to deal with slick roads. Not a chance that one of those anointed might slide off the road.
They are all Great Drivers – just as they are all Great Shots, with Great Judgment who never handle their guns recklessly. The putting on of a government-issued costume or the acquisition of a government title makes one responsible, competent, ipso facto.
It’s nonsense of the most obnoxious sort, but warbling saaaaaaaaaaaaafety has a kind of mesmeric effect upon the populace. It stills all dissent. Justifies any outrage. Enables the government to get away with doing things that are as unbelievable as they are outrageous – to the extent of empowering the lowest scum to legally put their hands on people’s private parts – including the private parts of women and children – provided the creeps doing so are wearing a special government-issued blue costume.
It’s for saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety!
The word is being used in the same way and for the same ends today, in this country, that other words, now in disrepute – the proletariat, the Volk – once were used in other countries, in earlier times. Saaaaaaaafety provides the pretext for the ruling cabal in this country to impose its will on the masses without actually having to impose it. The people – in the main – accept it on that account. More than accept, they defend it.
They – i.e., government workers – are just trying to keep us safe, after all.
You hear this everywhere.
So why not close the roads? Not just the Parkway. Any road. All roads. Whenever government workers decide it’s not saaaaaaaaaaaaaafe for us to be out there? Which could be anytime.
After dark, certainly. Or when the sun is “too bright.”
Right?
Isn’t the logic ineluctable?
They are just trying to keep us saaaaaaaaaafe!
But what is the origin of this mandate to keep us saaaaaaaaaaaafe?
There is language in the federal Constitution (which is a “contract” none of us actually agreed to) about the “general welfare,” which could be – and has been – construed to mean almost anything, in order for the government to authorize itself to do almost anything. But the government didn’t begin squawking about saaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety until rather recently. One did not hear the word back in the ’60s and ’70s, unless in the company of old biddies.
Then came the ’80s.
Baby on Board signs, all of a sudden. The random, probable-cause-free checkpoints which presume everyone’s guilty of “drunk” driving until they prove otherwise. Seat belt laws for grown adults. TV shows that glorified armed government workers (e.g., Cops, America’s Most Wanted) rather than poking fun at them. The first attempts to force people to buy insurance, first for cars – then for “health.”
It all began in the ’80s.
The Ascendance of Mommy Culture. Of women obsessed to a neurasthenic degree with . . . saaaaaaaaaaafety. This is where the water slide ride began. To quiet the harridans, men enacted laws. Soon, women were enacting them directly. Men soon became largely indistinguishable from women – or did their best to convince women of it. If anything, men strove to out-woman women by being even more “concerned” about saaaaaaaaaaaaafety than the typical neurasthenic woman.
And so, here we are.
A society ruled by a mewling authoritarianism. Not Big Brother – Big Momma. The worst sort of tyranny imaginable because it’s not just tyrannical, it’s insufferable. The endless cloying claptrap about abusing us, treating us as idiot children who can’t be trusted to crap competently in our own pants. . . . because Big Momma cares and wants to keep us saaaaaaaaaaaaaafe.
Your 5th grade teacher in stretch pants, but with a gun now – and the school day never ends.
It makes my teethe ache.
I love the rage in Eric Peters.
He’s soooooo right about saaaaaafty.
But, it also ALL about the ….. chil’run.
Be safe, my friends. For yer fucken kids.
I dont have kids, so i dont need to be safe.
Eric should move to the midwest where the speed limits are higher and there is less traffic before he blows a gasket. The DC area isnt for him.
Better yet move west of the Mississippi (just not as far as the Left Coast).
Better yet, south of Mexico!
People are dangerous so will government fix that for our safety also? Give it time young man, give it time.
Here in Minneapolis – where bicycles are a religion – they have painted bike lanes everywhere. Not that any of us have seen more that two or three bikes a year. This winter is cold – zero and single digits below zero + snow + ice. I can imagine whole families biking for fun! What’s a little weather?
Then too, Minneapolis is trying to make it impossible to drive through some neighborhoods. What’s particularly annoying is when you are somewhere don’t normally drive, and you try to use the side streets – only to find that after you go just a couple blocks – the street is closed – and you have to turn right. It’s sorta like a stair-step. I thought the roads for everyone to use.
You should try to navigate some European cities where you have a sidewalk for walking, one for running, one for bikes, streetcar lanes, car lanes and finally truck lanes. You take your life in your own hands just trying to walk down the street.
“they have painted bike lanes everywhere. ” – Like the paint will keep a 2 ton vehicle from hitting a bicyclist. This is the stupid government thinking. Paint a line, put up a magic barrier and all will be good and proper. Similar to the “no gun zone” around and in schools, or the “drug free zone”, because drug dealers and mass murderers will see the sign, and move on, because, well there is a sign….
I often wonder if libtards and their enablers in government actually believe any of this shit…but, we the sheeple apparently do, because we keep allowing it.
Like the paint will keep a 2 ton vehicle from hitting a bicyclist.
You’re right they won’t. But they are showing ‘they care’ – load of liberal BS.
There is lots of money to be made making signs.
Government is all about goosing the economy through tax and spend. Spend on anything.