The Real Cookie Monster: How Government Eats Away At Our Rights
Earlier this week, a child’s life in Aurora, Colorado was forever changed when she discovered that the Cookie Monster is not actually the happy, fuzzy, blue creature who loves to eat and share his sweets on TV, but a cafeteria worker at her pre-school who confiscated the small pack of Oreo cookies her mother lovingly packed in her lunchbox.
Per the ABC news report, the 4-year old girl came home with the cookies untouched in her lunchbox, along with a stern note for Mommy dearest explaining the school’s nutritious lunch policy.
As it currently stands, parents who send their children off to our institutions of learning already have very little say in what their children are learning and how they are learning it. For one, parents have very minimal control over where their child can attend school. If a parent decides that the setup of the public school system is not of the most benefit to their child, even when they decide to educate their child in a private, religious, or homeschool setting, they are still forced to pay taxes to fund the public education system they neither agree with nor use.
As time moves on in our increasingly progressive and government-controlled society, not only do parents have little choice over where to educate their child or what their child is learning – now parents are not even allowed to decide or have control over what their child can eat while they are in the care of our tax-payer funded, government-run think factories! One only need look at the implementation of Michelle Obama’s school lunch regulations to realize as each day passes, we as Americans continue to silently abdicate our individual liberties in every way, shape and form.
Many wonder how we have gotten to the place where our phones are monitored at all times, we are forced to obtain health care services we may not want or need, and are told what kinds of light bulbs we are allowed and not allowed to use in the privacy of our own homes. But when we allow a First Lady – not our child’s pediatrician or nutritionist – to “mandate servings of fruit and vegetables and limit the amount of sodium, sugar and fat” our children are allowed to eat on a daily basis without so much as an objection or letter to our congressmen, what do we expect? Today, schools are simply sending home unopened cookies with nasty, “educational” letters regarding proper nutrition for our children. How will we respond when instead of a notice from the school, parents begin to receive monetary fines or possible arrests for child neglect and abuse? By that point, it will be too late for any response.
If this all seems unrealistic and far-fetched to you, you may not be aware of the already far-reaching hand of our government. A book that comes highly recommended and discusses these subjects at length is Judge Andrew Napolitano’sTheodore and Woodrow. In Chapter 3, “Quiet Men with White Collars: The Rise of the Regulatory State,” Judge Nap goes into great detail regarding the abuses, strength and force of government agencies which are legislating, fining, arresting and destroying the lives and businesses of everyone from Amish Dairy Farmers to Oreo-packing parents of school children. The book thoroughly traces the origins of this progressive system and mindset back to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Has no one noticed that the mere existence of these alphabet soup agencies (FDA, FBI, EPA, NSA, and on and on and on) are not even constitutional? The Constitution is clear that “ALL legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” Nowhere does the Constitution allow for the existence of governmental agencies who hold legislative power. The fact that the FDA can enact laws that legislate what we can eat or grow or sell to a consenting neighbor should be infuriating! And this is simply one example of millions! “We The People” have absolutely no say in what men and women are appointed to run these agencies. We do not vote for these individuals and have absolutely no way to hold them accountable or remove them from their appointed offices if we wish to. While we continue to vote for congressmen and senators to represent us and who we believe will legislate just and appropriate laws for our nation, Congress rewards us by continuing to forfeit over their constitutional oaths and job descriptions. Rather than working hard to protect the liberties of their constituents, they relinquish all constitutionally-granted powers as the only body to enact legislation to insider-appointed government agencies.
As long as we continue to be content with our Representatives and Senators not doing their jobs and surrendering their power to properly represent our best interests, we can continue to expect out-of-control agencies to run our lives with no way to object, hold them accountable or change the system. We will continue to see our children banned from cookie-eating, our private lives incessantly invaded, and our freedom eroded until none remains. The real monsters are not in our closets, under our beds or on TV – they are in a little city called Washington, D.C.
Originally posted at Voices of Liberty. Used with Permission of Author.
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