Bureaucrats tend to justify their own existence by branching out into new areas. Except, every time they migrate into new territories, they also make more law regulating the actions of the people. Better put, to justify their existence, bureaucrats continually look for new reasons to write more regulations that allow them to exert control over non bureaucrats.

Nonetheless, they are still fun to watch. On one hand, they tell us we live in the freest country in the world. In the next breath, they state that we could be imprisoned for using too much water in our toilet, marketing products without a license, driving without a seatbelt, or saying a little prayer in a public building. They still agree that the Constitution has a Ninth and Tenth Amendment. Then they say that their bureaucratic function, of course, supersedes all that. That's justified with their favorite mantra: "for the health of the children."

That mantra allowed government to regulate bread, cereal, meat, fish, toilet paper, fast food, and thousands of useful chemicals -- including natural elements.

Years ago, one of the government's silliest programs was their sudden quest to get lead out of everything. Government said it was "for the children," so every liberal media outlet in the country touted the dangers of lead in the environment -- without having the slightest idea what the hell they were talking about.

It is true that one will be harmed by eating lead. Iron, copper and zinc are not good to eat, either. Bureaucrats needed more than just that little fact to justify "getting the lead out." So, they said lead is responsible for causing slow learners in children. No mother wants her kid to be a slow learner, so there you have it. The lead is now out of gasoline, paint and whatever.

And, what happened? The scholastic ability of children crashed significantly. Did the lack of lead have anything to do with that? Of course not. But neither did the presence of lead in our daily environment cause slow learners for any but those who consumed a lot of it.

The Environmental Protection Agency didn't learn much from that silly caper. Now, they want to regulate dirt. Yeah, dirt; as in dry dirt in the form of dust in the air. It shall be illegal to have dirt (dust) in the air because some child may breathe it. There is no concern, however, that man has been eating and breathing dirt and dust continuously since his existence on this earth. One might guess that we would be used to that by now.

Among other natural elements now proposed for government control, we read that: "EPA is directed to propose legislation and work with Congress to establish mandatory reduction targets for sulfur, nitrogen oxide and mercury. The legislation should include a reasonable phase in period, regulatory certainty for utilities, and market based incentives."(1)

The operative word there is "mandatory." That's the word that allows them to attack anyone not complying with (squad fire) SWAT teams. Apparently, a boy cannot even play with a little mercury on his desk in school anymore. What a shame. No more shiny dimes.

It continues, though. According to that same EPA directive: "All agencies are directed to support continued research into global climate change. Agencies should work domestically and in cooperation with allies to develop technologies, market-based incentives, and other innovative approaches to address the issue of global climate change."

Here's another inconvenient little question: When did the last ice age end? The answer is very inconvenient: It is just now ending. So, what might one envision happening around the earth at the end of an ice age?

According to the scientists at the Illinois State Museum: "If 'ice age' is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today. Our modern climate represents a very short, warm period between glacial advances."(2)

The U.S. Geological Survey publishes "Glimpses of the Ice Age from I-81" about the remnants of the Ice Age on the mountains between Strasburg and Harrisonburg, Virginia.(3)

Yes, bureaucrats are fun to watch. But, they are also a very dangerous lot. Quite often, they use junk science and even out and out lies to alarm the general public. Then, their fixes for their contrived problems always center around more control over the private and public affairs of the people. And, with very few exceptions, the liberal American media allow bureaucrats to get away with it.

1. http://www.epa.gov/epahome/headline_051801.htm

2. http://museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/when_ice_ages.html

3. http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/i81/

Socialists, scoundrels and scumbags abound. Anyone studying government knows that is how Capitol Hill is. It's always been bad there. But after Clinton, moral turpitude is even more common and acceptable.

The bulk of the sleaze is on the Democratic side. But, with only a couple exceptions, even the best of the Republicans are also guilty because they do not speak up. They are supposed to be lawmakers, not taciturn spectators. By not reporting blatant lawbreaking by their coworkers, they are themselves breaking the law.

For instance, most Americans know there was rampant voter fraud in the last election. Yet, we hear no outrage from any quarter in Washington. Nothing is done. No grand jury was impaneled. No investigations are in progress. So, apparently everyone in Washington agrees that widespread voter fraud is now acceptable.

It's the same story with campaign finance. There are people bragging that they gave about a million bucks to the Hillary for Senate campaign. Well, I hate to be inconvenient here, but according to federal law, the limit is $2,000. So, why no arrests?

Right. As the Democrats say, everyone does it. So, that apparently makes it legal. Except, there's still those campaign laws. . . .

Two years ago, someone got their underwear in a bunch and turned in the little loudmouth, Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), for campaign fundraising illegalities. Soon thereafter, Torricelli found himself under investigation by Mary Jo White, U.S. Attorney for New York -- a Clinton appointee. White already got convictions on some of the players in that case and it appears that Torricelli is to be indicted very soon.

This could be a great case to watch. Because, also involved in the illegal campaign finance scam are the two Senators from New York and a couple others. So, if White nails Torricelli, there might also be a domino effect -- and about five Republican Senators appointed. Because, according to rumor on the street, besides the illegal campaign finance activities, these Senators have all also received a number of rather expensive gifts under the table.(1)

Five socialists, one case. We look for the dominoes to start falling next month. Expect the incessant whine of the Democrats to be very entertaining, at least for the first week.

It looks like a cocky, little gun-grabbing socialist on the House side will be drummed out of politics, too. This is just another of those stories of a man in power fishing in the secretarial (intern) pool and getting caught. That's always a stupid thing to do and he knew it.

So Rep. Gary A. Condit (D-CA), another member of the Party of the Ass, bites the dust. Yawn. . . .

Why? No, not because his little paramour, Chandra Levy, came up missing.

How many does that make in Washington? Probably at least twenty interns, pages and whatever have turned up missing in the past couple years. Some were found dead. Most were never found. There's a very large ocean right next to the District. It's easy to make sure someone stays disappeared there.

The point is, this is a story that should not be much of a story. Yet, it's easy to report, so the media feeds on it like Teddy Kennedy scarfing up finger food at happy hour.

So, now we know Condit changes favorite squeezes about as often as some Senators change their Depends. Sometimes he was "dating" two or three at a time. And, we learn, he liked a little bondage and discipline sometimes and even hung out with the Hells Angels. Just your average Democratic scumbag politician, in other words.

Then he screwed up. So, now he's going to have to resign and he may get prosecuted. He blatantly broke the law, almost right in front of us all.

One of his main squeezes, the coffee, tea or me stewardess Anne Marie Smith, is making the TV chat show rounds admitting her tryst with a married man. As part of her story, she seems to have evidence that Condit pulled a Clinton and tried a little witness tampering and suborning perjury. Condit tried to persuade the flight attendant to deny their affair under oath.

Didn't work. Smith blabbed. Now he's in trouble.

Suddenly, everyone involved hired lawyers and publicists and we are stuck hearing about these jerks all day every day.

Meanwhile, there are a couple thousand people in Washington trying to completely entrench socialism in the United States and the media spends all its time reporting this soap opera.

1. http://torricellideathwatch.com/torch1.html

From time to time, we've been using the term "fascist" in reference to certain government activities. That's because, when an action or program instituted by government is socialistic, reactionary and dictatorial in nature, the tag "fascist" seems to be all that fits properly.

So, when we see government demand that businesses like banks provide government agents private information on all customers, allow their bureaucracies to assume everyone is guilty and force people to prove their innocence, and send heavily armed masked men to raid people's homes in the dead of night, we call it as we see it. These tactics should not exist in the United States.

Government agents intend to push us as far as possible with their Big Brother style technological snooping. The latest assault on our liberty is the mating of video cameras with computers.

Every day, in over 60 jurisdictions around the country, cameras are used to catch people as they try to beat yellow lights.(1) According to USA Today: "In San Diego alone, more than 60,000 traffic tickets are issued each year from the cameras at 19 intersections."

That's bad enough. But now, other areas like Virginia Beach, Tampa, Florida and The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles, plan true Big Brother-like fascism in the form of creating massive databases that contain computerized three-dimensional facial maps of residents. Surveillance cameras are then to be placed in various popular areas so people "police are looking for" can be identified. Privacy and liberty be damned, in other words. The expediency of government agents must take precedence over Constitutional freedoms.

Not everyone in government agrees with this type of Big Brother fascism, though. Last Wednesday, House Republican Leader Richard Armey (R-TX) and the American Civil Liberties Union issued a joint statement calling on state and local governments to stop using surveillance cameras.(2)

"Over the past several days, a troubling expansion in the way technology is being used in the surveillance of ordinary Americans has come to light. In response, we are today joining together to call on all state and local governments to stop using these dangerous technologies now before privacy in America is so diminished that it becomes nothing more than a fond memory."

The statement concluded: "The threats to privacy in America are all too real. We believe the privacy risk outweighs any benefits that these devices may offer. It's time to take notice of what has happened to privacy in America today."

We agree with the Majority Leader, of course. However, we also note that there are another five-hundred and thirty-some people in Congress who are saying absolutely nothing. Those on the various intelligence committees would be especially welcome to speak out.

Because . . . it appears there may be a coordinated method to this madness. In the background, there is a government movement to create a fancy new position with all sorts of very serious new powers. And, of course, they want the ability to find anyone at anytime.

This comes from the report of The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. They start out with: "We recommend that a new office of Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security be created to oversee the various Department of Defense activities and ensure that the necessary resources are made available."

Which, in civilian speak means, the American military should be used against civilians on American soil. "New priorities also need to be set for the U.S. armed forces in light of the threat to the homeland. We urge, in particular, that the National Guard be given homeland security as a primary mission, as the U.S. Constitution itself ordains. The National Guard should be reorganized, trained, and equipped to undertake that mission."

National Guard as police, in other words.

It's probably acceptable to have the National Guard protect our borders. After all, something needs to be done to block that constant assault of illegal drugs and aliens. But, these people are trained as military -- to kill people and break things -- and may not be trusted to act as peace officers.

In summary, they report: "Finally, we recommend that Congress reorganize itself to accommodate this Executive Branch realignment, and that it also form a special select committee for homeland security to provide Congressional support and oversight in this critical area."

This would be yet another Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) caper, of course. It is, more or less, just another step in putting FEMA(4) in control of everything whenever they wish to declare an emergency.

1. http://freedom.house.gov/auto

2. http://freedom.house.gov/library/technology/aclu.asp

3. http://www.nssg.gov/phaseiii.pdf

Note: the above link does not work 24/7

4. http://www.fema.gov

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