America has become a nation of sheep being led around by Big Brother. How much do we have to take? Do we have be to be monitored 24/7 by do-gooders who should mind their own freakin’ business? We are in danger of losing our liberties, and now is the time to stop an intrusiveness that borders on dictatorship of the politically correct of the worst type.
From Drudge and Fox News and the New York Post comes a story about several school systems which now have students wearing wrist bands to monitor the amount of their activity, inactivity, caloric burn rate and heart rate in the school systems’ efforts to fight the epidemic of childhood obesity. The information is then downloaded and sent to an ostensibly secure cloud storage system. One school system uses the information to help provide a grade in Phys. Ed. It appears other school systems are doing it because it is a “good idea.” It is clear that in at least one school system parents were uninformed about what was going on, and there is an issue as to whether this is voluntary.
What is even more disturbing, on Fox News this morning the anchors didn’t even seem disturbed by the story. "Email us what you think" they said. Forcing students to wear monitoring devices like animals? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with this?
From strip searches at airports to auto insurance monitors in our cars to unknown monitors on cars at car rental companies to surveillance cameras everywhere to television cameras watching what students place on their cafeteria trays in the lunch line to companies tracking our every move on the internet to the smoking police watching to see if we are smoking in our own cars and apartments….what are we doing folks? This is the stuff of Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany and North Korea. We have become so desensitized to it that it seems normal. Like a bunch of dummies we accept each new intrusion on our life. Well the government says it’s good for us, so we just have to go along. No you don’t!!! No, a cavity search of an 85 year old woman by the TSA in an airport is unacceptable.
If America doesn’t wake up and wake up soon, we will be George Orwell’s 1984. He may have had the date wrong, but his forecast is 100% correct and it is creeping up on us slowly and by stealth. There are always those who know what is best for you, and will force it down your throat for your own good or throw you in jail if you don’t comply.
As for those school systems, those parents should tell the school boards to shove those wrist monitors up their ass. Teach math, and leave what my kid eats to me. We don’t teach our children that it’s okay for the government to monitor our every move with a wrist band. If that is acceptable today, an implanted microchip will be okay for the future.
This is serious business. Wake up America. 1984 is just around the corner.
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