I popped in this morning to get my messages and see more laws being discussed to control the habits and actions of Americans. This is not a forum in which I wish to play. There seems to be a movement here to make everybody the same. Why even bother with the subject of individual freedoms?

I can't really fault any of you as this is the way America has been directed for years. Every possible choice that we make, must be controlled from our choice of automobiles to what we inhale, ingest, inject and who knows what is next.

My focus is not on government (state or federal) laws; but on freedoms. I have never lived in fear of others and what their habits could do to me. Read 1984 again and see what the hell you all are doing to this civilization.

Every time a group of people get together on a forum like this, the do-gooders and their prohibitions soon enter. I have spent years trying to find out why we all must live exactly alike from the air we breathe to where and with whom we live. Who put that ridiculous model of perfection into the heads of the masses?

America is in a terrible fix and we are discussing people smoking. I guess we have to, since some still smoke. It is breaking the pattern of control. I left here years ago because the whole damn forum had turned into controlling religious wackos. This one size fits all seems to be part of our culture.

It upsets me as an indivudual, that Reader Rant is probably going to continue until we find the perfect culture based on state laws. Most of the forums have their models of how to post, how to think with a cast of characters smashing anyone who breaks the mold.

It is very clear that RR is not for individual freedoms and certainly not for anyone who speaks for Capitalism.