Roblimo's Journal: Socialist Firefighters Are the Face of Tyranny

I am sick and tired of Socialist Firefighters and how they have taken away my liberty.

You think I'm kidding? I'm serious as a heart attack. I just got a $137.44 tax bill for firefighting services. This is unconstitutional and unfair. It's unconstitutional because nowhere in the constitution does it say government should provide firefighting services. It's unfair because I don't smoke in bed or use unventilated kerosene heaters or overload electrical circuits or do anything else that's likely to set my little place on fire. I'm so fire-safe that I light my charcoal grill with paper in a chimney, not with dangerous lighter fluid. So why, in the name of God and Ron Paul, am I forced to pay for my neighbors' carelessness?

Mind you, if a neighbor's house catches on fire, I'll run over with my fire extinguishers (I have two of them, ready to use) and my garden hose and try to put it out. We Americans are like that: neighborly and helpful. But we do not want firefighting service shoved down our throats, especially if it's controlled by government bureaucrats instead of honest, profit-making American businesses.

Not just socialism. Tyranny, too

Imagine a government bureaucrat coming onto your property whenever he or she wants and telling you how many people you can have over at any given time. Fire inspectors do this all over America, day in and day out. Worse, they can force honest business owners to spend thousands of dollars on sprinkler systems, smoke detectors, and emergency exits. They can do this to churches, too. Imagine that! A uniformed government official has the power to shut down a church because it is so popular that it attracts standing-room-only crowds. This is anti-Christian. It is against the First Amendment. It is Tyranny.

We must stop the evil of socialist firefighting and go back to the days when a fire victim would negotiate with private fire companies to put out fires on his or her property. Yes, once upon a time, America had private firefighting companies that competed with one another for business. The father of our country himself, George Washington, belonged to a private volunteer fire company. I say, if competing, privately-run fire companies were good enough for George Washington, they should be good enough for us.

We must hold town hall meetings. We must confront our local, state, and federal officials about the horror of socialist firefighting and tell them why it is evil and must be stopped, even though the firefighters' unions and the profiteers who make firefighting equipment will spend millions to lobby in favor of gouging taxpayers -- and increasing their tyrannical hold on us -- a little more every year.

To the barricades, brothers and sisters! And don't forget your teabags!

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