Virginia Libertarian

WorldNetDaily: FEMA bans reporters from Katrina victims
Federal officials are preventing Hurricane Katrina victims in government trailer parks from being interviewed by the media unless a FEMA agent is present at all times.

Seriously, what is up with this?  These people aren’t in jail (or are they, by the looks in that picture maybe they are).  What is the justification here for this crap?  Seems like at least some people in congress are taking notice and aren’t happy.

“To try and defend the behavior and say that was FEMA policy added insult to injury,” Jindal added. “FEMA should have apologized and tried to rectify the situation.”

I wish the journalist that was asked to leave had told them to fuck off.  I wonder what the police would have done when they were called.  Would they have done their job and said “Hey, there’s nothing against the law going on here”, or would they have done what the beauracracy told them.

TimesDispatch.com | Judge lifts orders in teen’s case
Judge lifts orders in teen’s case
Cancer patient doesn’t have to report to hospital; trial set next month to settle dispute

Jul 26, 2006ACCOMAC — A Chincoteague teenager’s fight to use alternative medicine to treat his cancer will get another chance after a judge suspended an earlier ruling forcing him to undergo traditional treatment.

BY SHAUN BISHOP
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Good, we have at least a temporaray reprive to this idiocy. Hopefully the higher up judges will see the stupidity in this ruling, and will give us back our families. When did we become a communist state where it is the governments or courts job to figure out what is in the best interest of a child rather than the parents job?

War is about a choice.  It usually goes something like this:  Is it better for millions to live in opression, or is it better for tens of thousands to die in the fight for freedom?  Which is it?  I don’t know the answer, and I hope I personally never have to find out.  I think that there is a line that has to be crossed in order for a person to consider it better to die for their cause than to live in opression, and the placement of that line is different for everyone.  When you cross the line for enough people, they rise up and fight for their freedom.  I think that is what happened in Israel now, too many lines were crossed.  I hope and pray that never happens here.  I hope we never again have to pay the cost in lives that freedom sometimes requires, I hope that we learned that lesson already.  I hope that we can turn back the tsunami of our government before too many lines are washed away.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
-Thomas Jefferson

CNN.com - Teen loses fight to use alternative cancer treatment - Jul 21, 2006
NORFOLK, Virginia (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family’s attorney said.

As I briefly mentioned this story earlier, it would appear that the judge has ruled that they are no longer trying to shove medication down your throat, but they will shove medication down your throat. Thank you social services. If this isn’t the biggest nanny-state ruling I’ve seen in a long time I don’t know what is. A hundred years ago this kid would have been considered an adult, and could have done what he damn well pleased with his life. Now we don’t even give him a choice in how he wants to treat his illness. What’s next, are they going to tell us what kind of TP we have to use to wipe our ass?

USATODAY.com - FDA panel recommends against ‘bionic eye’
A tiny telescope designed to be implanted in the eyes of some elderly patients should not receive Food and Drug Administration approval, the panel recommended on a 10-3 vote.

Lets pass over the fact that this is some pretty amazing technology and focus on this:  Why should anyone give a rats ass about what the FDA has to say about this?  Is this some form of food?  Is it some form of Drug?  No, it is neither, so why does the FDA have any say over what this company can do with it’s device?