The patriot act and the invasions of privacy that this entails or allows. The increased difficulties (albeit not a right but a freedom I used to enjoy) where I could board an airplane without even showing ID. Now they want to probe my anus. The push for national ID cards. The advocation for RFID chips.
Every law that has been created since I have been born, as all laws restrict freedoms. All the rules and regulations (along with the fees and taxes) as well as INFLATION that is the biggest tax of all, created by government that leaves me with less money to support my family and more into the greedy hands of governenmt.
Police when I was a child used to walk the beat and were friendly with all the citizens. Since the drug war started this IMO is what has changed the way the police act towards citizens in public. They do not routinely chat with citizens in public anymore. They don’t put on friendly and welcoming faces, they are stone faced.
They bark at citizen like they are dogs when handing out speeding tickets if you have the nerve to question them, even in a very calm and polite manner (and I am quite sure they do this and worse when stopping people for worse offenses). You get more respect from a min wage custoomer service employee at walmart than you do the police.
Along with the implementation of laws, once implemented gov’t uses that law to cast a wider and wider net around more and more citizens than they originally said the law was designed for.
The jailing of millions of my brothers and sisters under God for non violent drug offenses that ruins familes, ruins the individuals opportunities to work in the future, costs trillions of dollars, and gets tens of thousands of people murdered while making drugs easier for children to obtain than alcohol.
The confiscation of my fellow brother and sisters under God’s cheap used cars under the ‘asset forfeiture law’ that was pitched to the public and created to be used against international drug lords worth hundrends of millions of dollars…now the average seizure is like a 3K used car. My hard working neighbors cars.
The application of the ‘school zone’ drug law when created it was pitched to be applied to adutls selling drugs to children on schoolyards. Now it is applied to anyone and everyone (all my brothers and sisters under God) who happens to sell or buy a drug within so many yards of a school. Doesn’t matter if school is in session. doesn’t matter if any kids are aware this is happening. Doesn’t even matter if both people involved are doing so in a private residence and both believe that anyone giving or selling a drug to a child should get the death penalty.
Every new tax, fee, regulation, etc created since I was created. I’m sure there are tens of thousands. And there is no stopping or even slowing in sight and we all get to pay for the priveledge for all of these that encroach on our freedoms.
That’s off the top of my head.
