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Chicagoschool principal outlaws brown bag lunches.

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Old 02-15-2012, 10:10 AM   #1
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Re: Chicagoschool principal outlaws brown bag lunches.

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C'mon. We're talking about control of school lunches in limited places.

This is nowhere near the same as complete government control of the media, the internet, publishing houses, the judiciary, and entire school curricula, with secret police embedded to tattle-tale on their neighbors.

I agree.
However baby steps turn into giant steps.
If I wanted some govt twit to check my childs lunch I would of asked.
Until I do they need to back off and do something a lot more constructive with my tax money.

Call it what you want but it seems like the police and the govt get more power every year.
Next thing you know you cant throw a frisbee on a beach....oh wait....
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Old 02-15-2012, 10:30 AM   #2
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Re: Chicagoschool principal outlaws brown bag lunches.

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I agree.
However baby steps turn into giant steps.
If I wanted some govt twit to check my childs lunch I would of asked.
Until I do they need to back off and do something a lot more constructive with my tax money.

Call it what you want but it seems like the police and the govt get more power every year.
Next thing you know you cant throw a frisbee on a beach....oh wait....
LOL

I agree with the fact that we are ceding more individual liberties to the government. BUT, in saying that, let's characterize "the Government" correctly. More and more, group rights are trumping individual liberties. Part of that is natural and necessary for a society of 300,000,000 to live and work together. Some of it is through laziness, some of it is b/c people on both sides rely on hyperbole, demagougery and emotional rhetoric that doesn't properly frame the question.

You want to protect individual liberty? Then frame the question properly - where do the rights of the group stop ('cause they/we have them) and the rights of the individual begin. Calling people nazis and part of police state plays into the hands of the "group rights" crowd because, underlying these intrusions is almost always a legitimate societal concern:

"Were not evil nazis, that's just a bunch of right wing scare tactics. We are just trying to make sure all of our kids are eating healthy lunches to combat the epidemic of youth obesity - which, by the way, these right wingers fail to mention is harming our children and costing us billions in health care dollars."
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Old 02-15-2012, 10:49 AM   #3
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Re: Chicagoschool principal outlaws brown bag lunches.

I don't care for scare tactics either and the police statement I made was just sarcasm.

In this case the govt is supplementing or changing parental control with their own version of it.
I wouldnt have a problem with govt diet eggheads trying to educate more parents regarding child obesity.
But in this case they are literally taking potato chips out of kids hands and forcing carrot sticks into them.
efff that!

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Here's another article on the same subject.
The school had the nerve to charge the parent for the forced lunch.
Maybe instead of schools they should be called govt re-education facilities.

Preschooler's home-made lunch replaced with 'nuggets' : News : NorthwestOhio.com
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