Once upon a time in America, if you were a couple of little girls and you wanted to sell lemonade or girl scout cookies at a little stand in front of your home nobody would give you any problems. In fact, most of the people passing by would have smiled and would have seen it as a sign of hope that the next generation was being so industrious. Well, that is not the way that it works anymore. Today, all across America nightmarish control freaks are seeking to micromanage every single aspect of our lives. That includes banning young girls from selling girl scout cookies on their own front lawns. Yes, you read that correctly. In Missouri of all places, two young girls named Abigail and Caitlin Mills were recently taught a lesson on how to be good citizens in the emerging totalitarian control grid going up all over the United States. After a complaint from a neighbor, the city of Hazelwood cracked down on the two girls and told them that they must shut down the girl scout cookie stand that they had been operating in their front yard.
So were the girls doing anything wrong? No. There are very few things that are more "American" than selling girl scout cookies. In fact, they had been operating the stand during this time of the year for the past 6 years. It had become a community tradition. But according to the city of Hazelwood, the girls were violating a city ordinance that bans "the sale of commodities" from a home.
You see, the truth is that there is a "rule" for almost everything today. In fact, we have so many "laws" and "rules" and "regulations" in the United States that it is literally impossible to be in compliance with all of them.
However, this incident with the girl scout cookies would probably never have exploded if a nearby neighbor had not snitched on the girls. Apparently the neighbor did not like the fact that the extra people coming around to buy girl scout cookies made her dogs bark.
This is what America is turning into. We are all being taught to be suspicious of each other and to "inform" on our neighbors. Instead of living in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we are suddenly living in a country that more closely resembles East Germany or Soviet Russia with each passing day.
Well, fortunately this story had somewhat of a happy ending. Philanthropist George "The Shoeman" Hutchins bought the remaining 36 boxes of girl scout cookies that the girls were trying to sell. He even had the girls deliver one of the boxes to the angry neighbor for free. But even that turned into a bit of an incident. A local news report about the story put it this way....
After "The Shoeman" bought the remaining cookies he wrote a special note on one box for the neighbor who had the stand shut down. The box of Shortbread Cookies read, "Have a nice day. Sorry for all your troubles." Mills says the neighbor refused the cookies when her daughters brought it by. But the girls eventually convinced the woman to give the cookies to a child in the home.
But that is not the end of the story.
The city of Hazelwood is not backing off. They still insist that those girls (and all other girls in the city) will be banned from selling girl scout cookies on their front lawns from now on.
That is life in America today. We are taught that we should never try to do anything on our own. Instead, we are all encouraged to just give up, work for the system, and when we are not working for the system or shopping at their stores we are to stay in our homes watching the endless hours of "programming" on television.
In the old days, the streets of America were teeming with life.
In America today, how many people do you see out and about enjoying life in our neighborhoods?
The country that so many of us once loved is dying.
Unfortunately, the incident in Hazelwood, Missouri is far from an isolated incident.
For example, last year a 7 year old little girl in Tulare, California had set up a little lemonade stand because she wanted to raise money so that she could go to Disneyland.
How could anyone have a problem with that?
Well, apparently the authorities had a problem with that. They came in and shut her down cold because she did not have a proper business permit.
That is the way it is in America today. You have to have a "permit" to do almost anything.
Sadly, a growing number of Americans are buying into the idea that life will be better when we allow government to micromanage our lives.
One example of this that I wrote about recently is the new federal regulations regarding light bulbs. The old light bulbs that have worked so wonderfully are being totally banned and are being replaced by new bulbs that are more expensive, that are more dangerous for children and that are actually worse for the environment. The following is a brief excerpt from an article I recently posted about these ridiculous new light bulbs....
Back in 2007, President George W. Bush signed a law that mandates the following: "Manufacturers will no longer be able to make the 100-watt Thomas Edison bulb after Jan. 1, 2012, followed by the 75-watt version in Jan. 2013, and the the 60- and 40-watt bulbs in Jan. 2014." Yes, you read that correctly. Federal bureaucrats are running wild and the nanny state has decided that you are simply not going to have the choice to buy traditional light bulbs anymore. So why the change? Incandescent light bulbs have not been proven to be unsafe and consumers still want to buy them. The new CFL (compact fluorescent lamp) light bulbs are more expensive and are actually worse for the environment. So why was this law passed? The feds passed it because they decided that existing light bulbs use too much energy and have too large of a "carbon footprint". Instead of giving us choices and attempting to persuade us to change, the federal government is ramming their will down our throats.
Now that the government has banned us from selling girl scout cookies in our front yards and is telling us what kind of light bulbs we have to buy, what is next?
Will they arrest us for not recycling properly?
Don't laugh - the city of Cleveland has announced plans to have "trash supervisors" go snooping through trash cans to ensure that people are actually recycling according to city guidelines.
Will they arrest us for smoking in a public park?
Don't laugh - in New York City they will. The New York City Council has voted to ban smoking in all public parks and on all public beaches.
Will they arrest us for trying to do good to others?
Don't laugh - in Houston, Texas a couple named Bobby and Amanda Herring that had been feeding homeless people for over a year has been banned by the city from doing so. They were told that they needed a permit to feed the homeless and city officials said that they are not going to get one.
Sadly, the American people do not really speak up much about these ridiculous regulations on the local level. Instead, we all just keep going back to the ballot boxes and keep sending the same control freaks back into positions of power over and over again.
If there is not a major shift in the political culture of this country, the crazy regulations are just going to become more and more suffocating.
Someday will we need a "permit" or a "license" to take a breath of fresh air? Will we need a "permit" or a "license" to step outside of our homes?
Wake up and take a look around you. Our society is being turned into one big prison grid.
Is this really how you want to live?
Can’t sell Girl Scout cookies from your front lawn.
Can’t sell lemonade from a lemonade stand.
They are trying to squash any incentive for our young children to start their own businesses and experience free enterprise at work firsthand. Next, they’ll be telling us that Girl Scouts are “terrorists” and can not sell anything anywhere. (Those green and brown uniforms are dead giveaways… definitely Al-Qaeda, for sure!)
But you know, maybe that’s the whole idea. Just work for a “company” or “boss” your entire life.
Up next: Weekend garage and yard sales!
File a permit with the city or county to sell those unused items from your front porch, and add a 15 percent tax to the local government for each item sold. You are a private business, after all, and you will need a business license.
An extra tax shall be applied for selling pants, dresses and other clothing articles. 30% tax for Levi’s. There is a big international demand for jeans.
Used televisions and computers? An even higher tax. 50 percent… nah. Let’s try 53 percent, because it’s a prime number (remember those from grade school arithmetic?) and besides, it sounds cool!
impeachRonPaul: “The religous right is always the one pushing for restrictions. They are against marriage equality, womans right to choose, medical marajuana. Republicans want control over your personl life.”
What you fail to note is that such things have ALWAYS been regulated by the state. When you say “religious right” what you really mean is “virtually every American citizen in history up until 1960 or so”. For before that time you could not find any sane person who believed that the state should allow and even fund mills to destroy human life in the womb or call two men having sex with each other “marriage”.
You seriously come across like you’re operating on about five brain cells. You post the same off-topic drivel over and over and over again and never respond in any way to the essays you’re commenting on or the people addressing you.
PaulF,
Thanks. I could not have said it better myself!
Paul and Steve sound like redneck bigots with no education
Next thing will be that the comic books by Carl Barks with stories of Huey, Dewey and Louie selling lemonade will be burnt at the stake. Good night everybody!
Sounds to me like Germany in the 30s of the last Century…
The ” BlockWart ” was the man to protect people and check the laws and rules…
The Constitutional phrase of Liberty, secured as a Right, has included the pursuit of a livelihood for over 200 years. Such Rights are not suitable objects for revenue confiscation or restrictions. I took the city to court after they tried to make me buy an occupational license to do business within the city. They could not tell the court of appeals any legal reason why the tax/license was not improper. People do not know their rights or how to claim them. Laws are set up to trap people.
Impeach paul, this entire article is all about you and your kind, now get up and change yer diaper’
The article is FANTASTIC for bringing the POLICE STATE to light. The comments here are
well thought out with exception to few who do not know history OR the person they whine about…ie: impeachronpaul. This person must be a Nazi or a commie? Ron Paul is the ONLY one pushing for auditing the Federal Reserve and one of FEW who still gives a damn about
The Constitution (please sheeple, dont let THE VIEW influence you) it’s just another
propagenda machine indoctrinating you via
SOCIAL ENGINEERING and BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
If you are not aware what these two mentioned are…please DO YOUR RESEARCH.
Hey,…I lived in Hazelwood for a few years, and am from St. Louis, where Hazelwood is a suburb…..they are not so bad folk,…but once a “law” is “on the books”,…and then some idiot “complains”,…..the folks in office are supposed to act,….if not,…get the stupid “law” off the “books”,….imagine if they did not “enforce the law” and some kid gets hit by a car while delivering cookies to the curb? It is stupid,…but it isn’t always the “government agents” who think this stupid crap up,…they just enforce it,…
btw,…if you want to read a funny memoir about living in St. Louis…you should try,..
Webster Groves- The Life of an Insane family Living in the Perfect American Suburb….
you will laugh your ass of,…
Regards,
RJ O’Guillory
This is what happens in a police state dictatorship, which is what the US has now become. So many needless laws that almost everyone is a criminal, even little girls. And what other system of government allows one person to order the military to attack a foreign country that has not attacked us.
The sad part of this post is that the general
perception seems to be that that just because
some fool passes a law you have to obey it!!
You don’t. Laws are only effective when
people obey them. The girls should have
continued to sell their cookies. Teaching
your children to question and if necessary
defy authority is the only way you can teach
them to be good citizens.
Government works for them. How can you
possibly have a free and democratic nation
with a population who just do what they are
told like sheep??
I say we donate money to buy that house, then rent it out to the biggest, most ruthless gang in Missouri. Then see if she’s stupid enough to call the police on their drug dealing.
Whaaatt a bitch. You literally crushed two little girls’ dreams because you can’t stand your dogs barking.. get control over your effing dogs not your neighbors
Just as well the West was won years ago. Never happen today.
“Sir, do you have your permit in triplicate to draw water from any river you may cross?”
This is to prevent the ‘Lolita effect’.
Every spiritualist knows that baking cookies for a person was a sexual gesture. Now if pre-pubescent girls keep making and selling cookies, you’d wonder if they were SPIRITUAL WHORES.
So yes this IS indeed how we want to live unless a contract of affidavit overseen and witnesed or blessed by a priest is done OVER the cookies with an intent to remove sexuality from cookies and the girls aware while making, there is no way I’d want to eat any girl scout cookies either.
The spiritual protocols of food and drink outlets must also be changed accordingly, we do not know what portions of what not get on that food.
It used to be $1.50 donation to Girl Scounts got you a box of cookis. Of corse a larger donation was always accepted. If towns have regulations regarding selling from your home without a permit I.e. Business license- which most cities do and organizational leaders should be aware of such rules which we as citizens vote on…or in some form agree to. Had this been done properly the whole problem for the two girls could have been avoided. Now if someone showed up at 11 pm to donate and get a box of cookies someone could have called in re dogs barking and disturbing the peace. Then we would have a different dialogue.
A similar incident happened some years ago in Mendocino County, Calif. The anal retentive health inspector (whose only satisfaction in life seemed to be finding violations of nitpicking rules in our local food-related businesses) came across a girl selling homemade cookies in front of her home. He was actually flushed with pleasure as he related how he put a stop to such a grave offense against all that is civilized and decent!
He’s probably thrilled about all the food safety laws & regulations coming down the pike…
BINGO, Fred54! Your comment bears repeating:
“The sad part of this post is that the general
perception seems to be that that just because
some fool passes a law you have to obey it!!
You don’t. Laws are only effective when
people obey them. The girls should have
continued to sell their cookies. Teaching
your children to question and if necessary
defy authority is the only way you can teach
them to be good citizens.
Government works for them. How can you
possibly have a free and democratic nation
with a population who just do what they are
told like sheep??”
Nice Post
It’s all about the power. They want to dismantle the constitution and create a one world government. People are being manipulated to “take the blue pill”. The system is all around us. People are being drugged with additives in food and water. You can’t filter out the fluorine in the water. They install spyware in at least 1 out of 3 computers. Get an electric pen, shock yourself, and stand up against this tyrrany. “Take the red pill.”
You know, this isn’t the least bit shocking. Its called a CONSEQUENCE, ppl! What goes around, comes around. What this nation has done to others, is now being to done to us. But, really did you expect any different? “Manifest destiny” is a joke. A nation cannot destroy other nations in the name of “national security” and then sit back and not expect the same treatment…that is just mentally sick thinking. This government in the usa responsible for financing the communists in russia…and, no surprise, now its being done here.
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This is my first real post, the one above was a test.
The author wrote:
‘You see, the truth is that there is a “rule” for almost everything today.’
I cannot agree more. Everything is a law, a rule and a policy. There are different rules and laws depending on what community one lives in. The government does not want people selling things out of their homes because they will miss out on the tax revenues.
This happened about 20 plus years ago, but my family (my parents) have a house in the nicest suburb in the city, and my father was an airline pilot and made a good living. However, he was something of a workaholic and had lots of hobbies and whatnot.
Anyway, he had a 20 foot long log truck in the driveway. Working condition, wasn’t new but wasn’t a POS. Well, some POS neighbor called the cops and they wrote up a warning that the log truck could not be parked on the property.
My parents actually thought it was rather humourous, I was the only one pissed off. I learned a lesson that your property is not yours and the government can, without recourse.
I lived in that suburb, outside a bigger city. I was 17 and had a driver’s license. Got a ticket in the bigger city. So, I just went and paid the fine. Got another ticket in the suburb. The damn suburb refused to allow me to pay the fine, only my parents could, or I and my parents could appear in court. There is nothing in state law that required that, it was just their own stupid rule. So, because of them, I had to tell my parents, who yelled at me, and of course would not just let me pay the ticket (because they said it was cheaper just to go to court and pay there, my parents love doing things the most incovenient ways possible) and so we got into our best clothes to kiddie court on Thursday night. (and missed Cheers, Night Court and Hill Street Blues, and no kids, there was no internet, Netflix or whatever back in the good old days.)
Well, those girls interfered with my REGULAR cookie selling business! I pay taxes, and fees, why shouldn’t they? This cookie selling thing is killing the small business owner, I tell ya.
Sure, there are some ridiculous laws, but how about a small business owner’s interests?