Let’s leave the government out of it.

Filed under:Bill of Rights,General — posted by 3wire on 6/13/2005 @ 5:48 pm

This is an excerpt from interesting article by a heath activist
William Campbell Douglass II, MD, who has been calling for government intervention on the behalf of school children for some time. It seems he has had an epiphany about government involvement in people’s lives. I attached the whole doc below as it is from a newsletter and I cant link to it.

His website: http://www.realhealthnews.com

… The bottom line is this: It isn’t the Feds’ job to protect us from ourselves by limiting what private industry can make and how they can promote their products – only to protect us from what’s patently unsafe. However, it is the combined duty of government, parents, educators and competing free-market entities to provide a balance between the freedom to destroy ourselves with consumption and the disciplined “wise use” that leads to a life full of choices, options and variety. Come to think of it, let’s leave the government out of the “wise use” equation. Can you imagine the government giving out wise advice on any subject?

Sure, it might be simpler if we banned all hazardous things – junk food, cigarettes, guns, motorcycles, fast cars and all related advertising – or allowed the legal system to sue them out of existence…

But it just wouldn’t be America anymore if we did.

Full article
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