And I'll admit I'm a little ticked off.
For starters, this has been the worst week of probably my entire college career, if not my life. So in reality I probably shouldn't be blogging because I have a propensity to be even more of a jerk when it's been a tough week (who'd have thunk?), but I just can't help myself.
Mayor/Dictator Bloomberg of New York City and his lovely Health Board have officially passed a soda ban. In New York City it is no longer legal to sell "sugary drinks" over 16 oz. And the darling dictator himself had the audacity to say, "This is the single biggest step any city, I think, has ever taken to curb obesity. It's certainly not the last step that lots of cities are going to take, and we believe that it will help save lives".
You've got to be freaking joking me.
And to make matters even better, public opinion was pretty much thrown out the window because it's New York City and it's not like that in America or anything. Most polls, even in liberal NYC, showed that about 2/3 of people opposed the ban.
And there you have it folks.
The precedent has officially been set. Not only can the government now tell people to buy health insurance which is a bit less understood and a great many more faceted, now they can tell us what we can or can't drink outside the comfort of our homes. Not that Michelle hasn't already been working on that.
Next thing you know they'll put the soda companies out of business all in the name of the greater good. Oh and also because they despise anyone who makes a profit, but that's a whole other topic.
Here in the middle of the nation, I'm sure it'll take a little bit longer but this is the beginning of the end of individual rights as we've always understood them.
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)." --Ayn Rand, Collectivized Rights, June 1963
