Riding clears my mind.. or not.

So the rain quit for a day, the floods go down, and I ride my motorcycle to work at the Western State Hospital Library. The ride is cold and great... one shouldn't be in love with a machine at my age, but.

As I thought during work, about smoking - having been convinced by a State Trooper to go buy my first two packs of cigarettes (because he was going to stop me) - and finally growing wise without government overwatch and quitting after eight years - to the now banning smokers to the far away from people that deserve clean air - in Washington State it is twenty-five feet from doorways, off campus, outside of prisons, and the list will only grow as they creep into controlling everything.

Now I really don't care about the smokers, and I am not smoking, but did the government do this for me? my children, grandchildren or for the alien conspiracy that controls those civil servants in Washington DC?

I don't drink badly, don't drive under the influence of anything except my wife's watchful eye, so whatever one thinks I may have done before I was old enough to drink legally, or after, I quit getting drunk about the same time I stopped smoking. Must have gotten old enough to know better, but since my wife and I have a half a glass of wine some nights with some cheese I sometimes go buy another bottle - and I never knew the government was controlling my conduct for my (and other's) safety - and I can't buy a bottle between the hours of one to five in the morning. It really impressed me that the checkout clerk wasn't old enough to buy their own that was telling me this. There seems to be an underground market in buying cases and six packs from the trunks of the employee's vehicles during this period but it could only be a rumor, or they would be mounting criminal investigations about it.

So, in the 2nd Amendment struggle, the government is using the same tactic. If I had been my grandfather - who in 1920 could have purchased a BAR or a machine gun - but then in 1934 an excessive tax was placed on automatic weapons, just the type of thing most Americans wouldn't care about and the criminals don't either. Can you find any prosecutions of a criminal for failing to pay a Federal Tax on his automatic weapon? The continuing infringement continues, and all for my safety.

Remember it is the same government that sent me off to become deadly and death dealing with the same weapons and ammunition (and much greater than that) in its name and for its causes.

And they failed to de-program me. Lucky them, I grew out of thinking I had to destroy everything in my way about the time I quit smoking and drinking. Although I have really gotten much better at all the skills I needed. I just can see what lies beyond the target better than I could as a young man. So I don't need the government to tell me I can't use, own, carry or feed any weapons for any reason. I already know the proper limits, of myself, of the weapons and of the government. So I want my representatives in the Federal, State and local government to get rid of all laws that infringe on my Right to keep and bear arms. I also would like government support at all levels to build public shooting ranges, to buy/store/and loan me weapons to train with and/or carry in defense of the free state. I want the government to provide as much support for the 2nd Amendment as they did during the elections, insuring every citizen could vote -- that all those same voters are responsible enough mature citizens to keep and bear arms.

I want the government to remember to serve me, and you. I want the government to remember that they should treat me as an adult, a complete competent adult - a responsible adult.

Of course, since only a few people read these ramblings, I will have to write my representatives again and remind them before the 20th of January, and then I will have to remind the President on the 21st that he is my representative to ensure that the whole Constitution is followed. Some people are such selective readers, maybe the justice and the President should read the entire Constitution at the swearing in?