WHOSE BODY IS IT ANYWAY?!!!! |
In Florida, a man advertised "Two excellent kidneys! - 99-Year Lease! - Price Negotiable" - an unusual offer, to say the least, but the question is: Should it be illegal? In this case, the man wanted more money than he was getting from welfare. This is not unusual. What is relatively unusual is that the man offered to actually do something to earn more money. In fact, he offered to literally give of himself - of his own body. He had two good kidneys. He figured he only needed one. He wanted more money to live on. And Voila! He struck upon the idea of selling an extra part of his body to raise the dough to do it! Not a decision to be made lightly, he none-the-less considered the options and made it. The mistake he made was to have the effrontery to assume that his body belonged to him! How absurd! How preposterous! The gall of this guy to think he owned his own body! NO! said the State. Oh, no, no, no! We can't have this! Why if people sold parts of their bodies there'd be Trouble In River City! Never mind organ-markets. Never mind prostitution. Never mind abortion. and Never mind suicide. No. The problem is that if we let people get the idea that they own their own bodies, they might get the idea that they own their own minds too! And if that happened, it wouldn't be long before people started questioning whether Big Brother always knows best! People might even question whether Government has the Right to tell them what to do! Horrors! The end of Civilization as we want them to know it! But you see, that is precisely the issue. Granting that Government is necessary to maintain a civilized society, just where does it's function properly begin? And even more to the point, (and something you'd hardly ever hear a politician or a member of the media ask), exactly where does it's function END?!!!! Surely Government's power should end before it spends tax money on studying "why bumblebee's can't fly". Surely it should end before it fines a farmer for cleaning out a nest of field mice. Surely it should end before taking away the Citizens' Right to Bear Arms. Surely it should end before persecuting otherwise law-abiding citizens for indulging in recreational drugs. Surely it should end before telling us what to do with our bodies. The next step is to tell us what to think! And by golly, by gosh, isn't that just what Political Correctness is all about???? To plead with the Power-Lusting Octopus of Government, "When will you make an end of your Power?", is to ask the jackals how much of you they will leave to enjoy life. Friends, Fools, Countrymen! Lend me your ears! Look! You need not worry! You won't miss them! We will give you these nice crisp Savings Bonds!..these handy little Food-Stamps!...this Ponzi-Scheme called 'Social Security'!....these nice little perks for your corporations! Citizens! We are like a frog placed into a pot of room-temperature water with the heat on low. That Octopus sucks from our souls a little freedom here, a little freedom there. It is a slow and gradual process, but in the end, our goose is cooked - just as surely as is that frog! When, oh when will the Citizens of this great nation recall the virtue and the value of freedom! When will they recall the Founding Fathers, the plowsmen, the herdsmen, the blacksmiths and teachers who laid down their lives, their honor and their fortune to secure liberty unto this land! When indeed, when greedy fools laud the idea that government should prevent banks from charging for ATM transactions - and a guy can't even sell his own kidney! ![]() |
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