Is the United States a free nation? Most would agree that yes indeed, America is Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.
I myself am not confident this is really true anymore and I know many of you reading this would agree.
We have a Federal bureaucracy that has become so large and so powerful that it is literally running amok, trampling people’s rights each and every day in our communities and folks just go about their business like this is normal and ok.
In many states, people can’t even choose to drink milk straight from the cow and yet they can ride motorcycles without a helmet (yes, there is actually a law protecting this “right” in my home state of Florida) or go down to the corner liquor store and buy a case of cigarettes or a bottle of whiskey and drink themselves into oblivion possibly even killing someone with their vehicle on the way home.
Parents are increasingly losing control of healthcare decisions for their children with bureaucrats and social workers deciding what is best instead of the caregivers. Just a few weeks ago I was told by a so-called “holistic dentist” in my area that he required x-rays for every single dental cleaning visit for the children in his practice because if he didn’t, the state would consider it “supervised neglect”.
Does this make sense to you?
It is becoming increasingly apparent that a key skill for folks who wish to remain healthy in today’s environment is knowing how to use the word NO effectively.
NO is truly a beautiful word. It is many times one of the very first words a baby learns to say much to the chagrin of the parents.
Despite its negative connotations, the NO word can be very positive. It sets a boundary. It enforces limits.
NO draws a line in the sand.
If you’ve had trouble with the word NO in the past, you’d better start learning to get good with it.
Here are situations where using the word NO is necessary to health:
1) A state official comes to a privately owned residence or place of business without a warrant and tells you that the people are not allowed to take home the locally produced raw dairy which they have paid for and is rightfully theirs.
Answer: NO, as it appears that you do not have a warrant, please go away and let us go about our business. If and when you come back with a warrant, we would be happy to talk with you.
2) A TSA agent at the airport says you are required to go through the airport scanners which douse your body in health robbing radiation.
Answer: NO, I am innocent until proven guilty in America. I do not have to subject myself to radiation to prove it to you or anyone else. I opt-out.
3) A doctor tells you after a routine blood test that your cholesterol which is 220 is too high and that you need to take cholesterol-lowering meds to bring it down.
Answer: NO, my research tells me that women with the highest cholesterol live the longest. My Grandfather ate 2 eggs fried in butter every morning for breakfast and never had a heart attack and lived to be 97. I am going that route thank you.
4) The pediatrician tells you your baby has jaundice and that he needs to be blindfolded and put under lights for several hours a day even though he is only 2 days old and his liver hasn’t even started working yet to break down the bilirubin.
Answer: NO, I have confidence that this healthy baby will be able to handle the bilirubin on his own when his liver starts to actually work in a couple of days. I will take him outside in his diaper for brief jaunts in the sun which is what my mother did when I was jaundiced. I will skip the baby torture treatment thank you.
Have you gotten really good with the NO word? If not, you’d better start practicing. Your health may one day depend on it.
Below is one of the best demonstrations I have ever seen on how to effectively say NO to an overzealous bureaucrat intent on trampling your rights in violation of the Constitution of the United States.
You will not believe this video when you watch it. Welcome to America, Police State. My jaw was on the ground. The guy in the video is absolutely brilliant handling immigration officials that have no jurisdiction whatsoever over American citizens when they are not crossing the border and are freely traveling within the United States. He expertly demonstrates how to handle these people and get positive results with no physical confrontation.
Watch and learn my friends. What other situations have you experienced that require the proficient use of the NO word?
Now I wonder how different this video would be if he were Hispanic looking. My husband is a third generation Mexican-American from Michigan with a Spanish name.
I have to say “no” every time I take my boys in for a dental cleaning and the dentist wants to apply a fluoride treatment. They always ask me if I’m aware that our city’s water is not fluoridated. I say, “Yes.” They ask me if the boys are taking fluoride supplements. I say “no.” Simple as that! They may think I’m a bad parent, but I know I’m protecting my boys.
Our freedoms are being eroded bit by bit. The most outrageous example of late is the HHS mandate which requires all employers to pay for birth control pills (which are horrible medicine in the first place), sterilizations, etc. Catholic institutions, among others, have moral objections to being forced to do this, and could have been given a religious exception had the president seen fit to give it. He refused, and our First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion got trampled. There are many, many lawsuits against this mandate. Wake up, folks! The HHS mandate may not affect you personally if you’re not Catholic…but if they can take away our religious rights, which rights of yours might come next?
I’m just wondering about the free exercise of religion for all the people who are employed by these “Catholic” institutions. Does the Catholic institution have the right to force them to live according to “Catholic” doctrine? This is about access to health care. I know that birth control pills are awful for you, but I take them rather than become so depressed that I take my own life. They are an important part of my depression regimine. My daughter takes them, as well. The other two meds she takes for bipolar syndrome are useless with keeping her hormone level even. Perhaps we will figure out how to do that without these pills, but it isn’t something our doctors know anything about. These institutions are “Catholic” in name only. This mandate doesn’t apply if you are a nun, or a secretary at a rectory or a parish. Not only that, but I grew up Catholic, and I have never met a Catholic that doesn’t use some form of birth control.
Jennifer,
No one is forcing you to live according to Catholic doctrine. It is your choice to be employed there. If you don’t want to play by their rules, work somewhere else or pay for your birth control out of your own pocket.
Sidebar-I am Catholic and have never used birth control in any form outside of NFP. Many who read this blog are not Catholic and still do not use birth control pills.
I hope you take the time to search Sarah’s blog and read about the GAPS diet. There are other, better ways to work to correct hormone imbalances, depression, and even bipolar without birth control pills. You are right though, it isn’t something doctors will know anything about. Good luck and I wish you well.
DItto to everything Lee said.
I would also add that of my dear friends that have dealt with bipolar, the ones who took the chemical route have never improved in the long course.
My one friend who worked hard to correct the root problem did, though.
Good luck to you and your daughter.
So, we can opt out of TSA scanners without subjecting ourselves to heavy pat downs just by saying “No”? I’ve opted out of scanners to be patdown and it is shocking how few people object to the scanners. I didn’t know I could just say “no” to patdowns as well. Do you “contract” with the TSA agents: “I will not go thru scanner, and I will allow patdown as long as you pay me $10,000 for violating my right to travel unmolested. Do you agree to pay me $10,000? Who is your bonding agent and what is your bonding number so I can submit my claim?”. It’s time that government agents PAY $$$ for violating our rights. “Those who do not assert their rights HAVE NO RIGHTS.”
Because we have allowed our citizens to become ignorant of history and ignorant of our rights as Americans, we are now being abused by the very government our fathers fought to protect. Wake up, America! Before it’s too late.
oh no it’s not 🙁
We are free to travel unmolested in the United States of America. No official has the right to detain us for no reason to ascertain our citizenship or who we are without cause.
Love the guy in the video. What a true patriot!
Everyone should watch this video.
America is no longer a ‘free’ country. people who try to declare it still is are unfortunately in denial.
isn’t this the pastor who a few years back was beaten up by border patrol thugs, charged with obstruction/resistance . . . and found not guilty? yeah, i’d be videotaping and generally peevish too.