Something's wrong. I and the ACLU on the same side?

I'm becoming nervous. Not only has our Congress forgone any sense of right or wrong, and our President has embarked on his own personal war against the principles of our Country's success, not only do militant islamists have new found power against us, and China, North Korea and Russia are all testing our limits, but now the ACLU and I are in agreement on an issue. Wow, what a time we live in.

The AP has a story HERE about an ACLU suit against the TSA.

The folks in an airport apparently lost sight of their stated goals, and became part of the problem.

At the heart of all of this is freedom, or the increasing lack of it. A man was carrying some $4700.00 of his own money, and the "authorities" at the airport saw a need to detain him and question him about it.

The TSA's name is actually: Transportation Safety Administration. What possible harm did this man's cash present? None. What it represented to the "authorities" was a possible seizure opportunity.

You see, we now do not have the freedom to walk around with large sums of money, because we have ceded that right to government. Their goal was to determine that his money was in violation of one of the many rules governing our behavior and that they'd get to seize it.

A quick search on "number of laws in the U.S." provided only one answer: Too many. Seriously, I couldn't find even an estimate, because there really are too many. The Congress has been adding some 300 new laws every year, by themselves. This is only the beginning. Congress doesn't create ALL laws, because we've ceded that right to other entities like States, Counties, Cities, Commissions, etc. An estimate I found suggested that each year Americans are subjected to tens or even hundreds of THOUSANDS of new, additional, or modified laws. Laws really have only one characteristic, that being that they restrict freedom.

Don't get me wrong, or try to read into this any desire for anarchy. Law is necessary for a free and stable society. However, have we reached (passed) the point where enough is enough?

Today, just in Title 26 of the United States Code (the part which authorizes the IRS) there are so many laws, written so poorly that you cannot hardly live within the entire scope of the code. Simply put, they have laws that prohibit you from living without violating something or another. This puts the "authorities" in the position of being able to come after you any time they like.

Most of us don't give them a reason to take notice. However, when some agent of said Government decides you pose a risk, they almost always have the legal means to deal with you in whatever means they decide. This sounds like paranoia to some. Mostly to people who have yet to run up against the system.

Unfortunately, occasionally an innocent citizen like this gentleman getting on a flight with some cash, we find otherwise.

Our Government has become too large, too powerful, and to dependent on itself and it's future. It's like an animal that has to survive at all costs. Sadly it consumes our freedom, that very thing with which we entrusted it to begin with.

It was not supposed to be this way. The government was supposed to be watchful over our freedoms, not our movements. They were empowered to provide for our safety, not our existence. It was created to protect our interests, not subject our populace.

I fear the genie is out of the bottle, and we're just now beginning to see that it's not a benevolent genie, but rather an evil, and hungry one.

If people don't wake soon to the sounds of their liberties being devoured, then they'll sleep through the last vestiges of their futures being consumed by a ravenous beast called Uncle Sam.