I live in Florida and the other week our vacuous governor signed into law sixty-five different new laws that came into effect. I got on the web and searched over and over for the actual list of these new laws. All I could find was a partial list of what they were.

Only the seat belt law got a lot of press. Cops can now just pull you over for that only. I’m forty-years-old and have only worn a seat belt in bad weather. I’ve been in several car accidents in my life and a couple of them, if I had a seat belt on, I would have been done. However, I knew it was time to put it on, because the truth is now the police don’t need probable cause to pull you over. All they have to say is “Hey, I didn’t see a seat belt” and there would be nothing you could do.

I am one of those folks who apperceives that law enforcement in this country as been long out of control. I knew this was just another law that would take away more of my freedoms. That seems to be the irreversible trend in America. Politicians in each session keep passing more and more laws. With very few exceptions, every law that is passed seems to just take away my freedoms.

I remember I had this conversation some years back with an older Cuban man who came to America decades ago when Castro had his Revolution. He told me one hot summer day while smoking a great smelling cigar, that when he came to America all those years ago, it was such a free country. He opined and reminisced about how beautiful of a country we had. Running from the communists, he understood the value of freedom. He told me, “Young man, you should have seen this country back then. It was so free.” He then gave me one example after the other why we were no longer free. I never knew his name, but I’ll never forget how he was choked up with a tear in his eye when he thought of my country in a better day.

With the next sixty-five laws Floridians were bound by and knowing ignorance of the law is no defense, I started wondering. How on Earth can any of us keep up with these laws and abide by them? It made me think. How do I make folks understand the sadness that a lot of us feel? No one really cares about the state of our Union.

Being the last generation of freedom and watching the death of freedom, it is devastating that these kids today will never know the liberty we all had. When we played all day, we were gone and out of sight until the sun went down.

Here is the only way I can say it. Think of a masterpiece of music created by Mozart. The piece in itself is true perfection. Now just take that same piece of music and add a drum roll to it. Then add a guitar sound. Then add another sound to it. Just keep adding sounds to it and at what point does the masterpiece become unrecognizable? It just becomes noise.

Well, that is how I feel about the founding fathers and the government they put together. In the beginning it was a masterpiece. However, after all these years of piling one law on top of another, we have only created noise. It is all just noise. It is not freedom. The only way back to hearing that Mozart again is to rescind all these damn laws.

When Congress or state governments come into session, they need to just repeal one law after the other. No new laws, but the abolishment of countless freedom-stealing laws and regulations. That is the only way back.

There is a tear rolling down my face just writing this. I want to hear the masterpiece again. I want the Mozart of governments to sing to me just one more time before I die. I want my kids to hear it.

C. Rich

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