Why Liberals Do Not Want Prayer in Schools

"I want the judiciary to ... punish leading rioters [against the 2009 election in Iran] firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson," Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University."
~ From Rueters

I suspect that many who follow my blog are not going to like this post, but then again, this area is for equal opportunity bashing of incorrect ideas, and is my property, so here goes.

In short, the kind of religious zealotry that is found in the above statement has its seeds in ANY introduction of religion into government and indeed points out the dangers of doing so. Our worst nightmare is for religion to take over the government for when that happens we will see the various sects fighting for control so as to send the other to hell - and using government as a tool of oppression to do it - because they do not believe as the 'other" believes.

The business of government is administration, and NOT the business of the promulgation of mores. Yes, without mores the government will fail, but if by the time a person gets to government, religion has not affected them to give them morality, then there is no hope for any of us.

Religion belongs to religion and, just as government needs to stay out of religion, so too religion(ism) needs to stay out of the government - meaning that religion, if it has to use the government to embed itself into people so as to embed itself into the government, then we are all doomed.

Not to put too fine a point on it, do you want Mullah Ahmad Khatami to be the Senate majority leader? Then drop all the histrionics about prayer in public school, for if you do not stop, then eventually you may find that you prayers are required to be said in Arabic - because the government has told you so.

This, my friends is the real reason why liberals do not want prayer in public (government)schools.

The Cancer Spreads

I open my email this morning and what do I see but another encroachment and peering into the private lives of the citizens. If domestic spying was not enough, now big brother wants to know when and where you drive .... all of course under the guise of knowing how much you drive so as to collect money from you to keep you safe. What's next - government taxation of the library books you read, or the email that you send (oops that's already been done it was called The Stamp Act) with the excuse that they need to charge by the size of the book, and that therefore they need to know what books you are reading?

Here are some excerpts from the article:

CENews.com News Posted: Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Transportation commission urges shift to mileage-based fee
A bipartisan, congressionally created commission is urging lawmakers to fundamentally shift the way the federal government collects revenues to fund transportation infrastructure.... charging vehicle drivers a mileage fee embodies the "user pays" principle and more accurately aligns the costs and benefits of the surface transportation system to those who are using it. ..... "With the expected shift to more fuel-efficient vehicles," said Robert Atkinson, chair of the Financing Commission and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, "it will be increasingly difficult to rely on the gas tax to raise the funds needed to improve, let alone maintain, our nation's surface transportation infrastructure."

Some Points
#1 We already have a mileage based fee. It is called the gas tax. It measures directly how much a person is driving and if you want to collect more revenues, then adjust the tax.

#2 Does anybody else see the threat here to civil liberties. If I was wanting to be a tyrant this would be exactly one of the things that I would want implemented as a first step to tracking the people and controlling their movements. As entertaining as Jack Bauer has become, Jack Bauer is wrong. There were plenty of Jack Bauers in Nazi Germany.

#3 - There is plenty of revenue generated for highways. One problem is that it is siphoned off.

#4 - There is nothing wrong with the nation's infrastructure. Harping on this is but a ruse for one interest group to clamor for their share of the pie that has been stolen from them via taxation. In a previous life I used to be a practicing engineer and I am sickened at watching the engineering society descend on Washington along with all the other pigs to fight, grunting and slobbering, for their position at the trough of government handout and subsidy.

#5 - Instead of taxing us out the ass - how about stopping the spending.

#6 - Still looking for the valley - if anybody knows were it is, let me know.