Source: www.naturalnews.com
By L.J. Devon, Staff Writer

(NaturalNews) The overreaching hands of Big Government extend out from all sides like octopuses surrounding us in a cesspool of murky water. Flailing our arms, we swim to get out of their controlling gaze, but their tentacles reach out to block our path. It’s eight to two; for every hand we try to move freely, there are four more tentacles to hold it back. This is the scenario that America is creating today, using government legislation to control one another’s movements, behaviors and lifestyles.

These overreaching octopuses crawl under our bedroom sheets. They tell us what we can put in our body. They squirm in our brains, restricting our free speech, what we say and what we type. Now, this nanny state of control is crawling into our trashcans, sorting out what we throw away. Does legislating against each person’s trash make the world a better place?

Legislating behavior and lifestyle always backfires, dividing and perpetuating accusations

If everyone had the power to fine others for behavior that they didn’t like, then life would become a giant witch-hunt police state, with people pointing fingers and extorting money from others whom they don’t agree with or understand. In this way, society becomes divided into cliques that only fight against one another, opposing each other’s lifestyles and decisions. By creating a nanny state government, society devolves into a state of perpetual accusation. Sadly, this is what American government has morphed into today at both the local and federal levels. It has become a pit of glaring octopuses, empowering politicians with eight tentacles that are used to control the free will of human hands.

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