photo #2334370

I was sittin' around yesterday, mostly thinking. Yeah, never good, but in my defense, it was raining most of the day. I was trying to come up with the perfect analogy to reach at least one person by comparing the circus in D.C. to the admission price we're being charged even if we don't attend. Yeah, there's a plethora of animals, not just donkeys and elephants. Hyenas, snakes, rats, wolves in sheep's clothing, ferrets, and mixed species. The ringmaster is mostly unknown, but a lot of us know who it is. The sideshows aren't funny, and the monkeys are just monkeys. The rides aren't fun, and the pickpockets rule their society. The howler monkeys are irritating, to be sure, but after awhile you get deaf enough to ignore them. There's charges for everything, including new ones by the minute. There's even an exit charge if they haven't already gotten all your money. We won't even talk about the clowns and their lack of humor. At least we understand why all the fencing and concertina wire now. While I was thinking about an analogy with the circus, I got head smacked with the perfect one. Your neighborhood is about to go into a homeowners association ! You'll lose control of your freedoms to them, and "enjoy" the annual fees to capitulate to their mandates/dictates subject to their own "association courts". Fines and penalties abound, and you'll do what you're told or else. Yes, there's people who love being controlled with the possibility of controlling others to achieve power. The "boards" enjoy a community that complies with their personal definition of bliss and desires. That's not where it ends, though. These people are establishing their credentials for entry into the heavenly "condo association" heirarchy upon their retirement. THEN, there's not only dues, but fees, common area fees, upkeep fees, landscaping fees, ad nauseum. Personal freedoms must be surrendered before membership by ironclad contracts. The district judges live there, too. Now, they're joining forces with states to annex the rest of us into their madness without due process. Megalomania abhors a vacuum. Our Founding Fathers knew this, and established documents to prevent it's happening here. It's time to uphold and defend those documents, or take your flag down because it's not approved. Your choice? Farm or Condo?