[TheForge] background checks

[Andrew Vida]

Allen Ortery wrote:
> The more nuts that show up in the world the worse it gets. Most likely
> is an insurance thing, they can be a real pain about many things. So
> far we have not been hit with that at the park where I volunteer,
> maybe for full time employees. We sometimes have to live with some
> things or band together to keep from having to. Some times I can't
> decide which to do.  To many nuts and you can't protect your self any
> more.   The world seems to get worse in many ways to many pointless
> laws and not enough good straight thinking. What can we do?

	What can we do?  We start with education - become smarter than the 
people attempting to shackle you.  I consider myself to be far and away 
better edumacated on liberties and that sort of thing than the average 
Joe, and I still see myself as needing to know a LOT more.  Most 
Americans, from what I have gathered, have never even read the damned 
Constitution!  That is ridiculous.  One needs to know what liberty and 
equality really means before they can take action, but once learned, you 
conglomerate with like-minded people and you refuse to be treated like a 
servant - like a criminal - a suspect.  If people understood just how 
utterly ridiculous this all is, they would stop it today.  But we live 
in our little bubbles, once all worried about whether they should get 
that BMW in red or green or preoccupied with "the playoffs".  And now we 
are in uncharted waters and some very bad things could be just months 
away where people may have no jobs, or worse - so they worry about that 
as those who would strip them of their liberties spin their little webs 
and have a good laugh at our expense.  This can be stopped, but people 
have to put irrelevancies and ignorance aside if anything of civil 
liberty is to remain for our posterity.  The vise is closing on us. 
<--Ob. Metal Content. :)

	The truly frightening thing about all this is to hear some people speak 
- they actually want to be told what to do, what not to, and how to 
live.  But far worse than this is that they agree that the use of force 
against those with other opinions is not only OK, but necessary.  Such 
people are the dangerous ones.  They will become the next generation of 
Brown Shirts.

	I would say the worst thing to do is nothing.  But maybe I am wrong. 
We each must choose for ourselves.