Infowars
September 25, 2012
From people being harassed for paying by cash
or having a food garden, to Americans being arrested for letting their
children play outside – innumerable examples over the past few months
alone illustrate that the United States is no longer a free country.
The nanny state is no longer just on steroids, it has
turned into the Incredible Hulk as collectivism, pernicious bureaucracy,
regulation, mass surveillance and outright tyranny runs wild across the
country.
- Parents across the country are being arrested for letting their children play outside. A stay at home mom in Texas was held in jail for 18 hours for allowing her children to ride on scooters while she was watching them from her home. A mother in Virginia was also harassed by social services and police for the egregious crime of allowing their children to play outside in another example of how the nanny state is running wild in America.
- The war on lemonade stands,
traditionally viewed as a quaint example of America’s entrepreneurial
spirit, has intensified in recent months with cops slapping parents with
fines for letting their kids run “unlicensed” lemonade stands in three
separate incidents over the last year alone. A map of restrictions on child-run concession stands illustrates how there have been dozens of examples of police interference across the country.
- After an 11-year battle with the state of Oregon, landowner Gary Harrington was found guilty under a 1925 law and sentenced to spend 30 days in jail for collecting rainwater in three “illegal reservoirs” despite the fact that they are on his property.
