Via Mark Steyn at NRO’s The Corner – one of the liberal complaints about conservative Christians is that we are, allegedly, trying to tell them what to do in the bedroom. This is an absurd accusation – if we were telling them what to do, they’d be doing it properly and we’d have a higher birth rate…but, still, it is what they say we are trying to do. So, imagine the shock liberals will get out of this:
Pierre Lemieux is an economist whose most recent book, Comprendre l’economie, just won the prestigious Prix Turgot in Paris. When it comes to guns, he’s a hobbyist, not a lobbyist, but in his spare time he has been trying to make the authorities comprehend something about the relationship between public safety and his love life. Not because he thinks there’s a nexus, but because the government does.
Before renewing his gun permit in 2007, the authorities decided to inquire into Lemieux’s bedroom history. Did he divorce anyone in the last two years? Did he break up with a girlfriend? If yes, use a separate sheet to explain.
Pardon me? Explain?
Well, it was nothing personal . Apparently, Canada’s government feels it ought to know the romantic status of all firearm owners. Hmm. Didn’t someone say the state had no business in the nation’s bedrooms?
Yes, liberals did – and do; endlessly. Actually, they are rather tiresome about it. But here come the liberals sticking their nose into a citizen’s bedroom because he wants to have a weapon. If M. Lemieux was proposing to have a mass orgy with goats in his bedroom, he’d probably get an award from some liberal group…but because he wants a gun, liberals want to know all the details, just in case there’s something in his sex life which can be used to justify denying him a permit.
Mark Steyn goes on to note how the pervasive ability of government to pester us runs the risk of just grinding us down. Because Lemieux essentially told the Canadian government – in a letter to the Prime Minister – to jump in a lake, the government denied his permit. M. Lemieux is still fighting, but how many people are really willing to go to the bother of fighting off Big Brother? Just as in that famed and prescient novel by Orwell, its not that the thing wanted is illegal, but government wants to know why you want it…and in the asking of why, you can find yourself caught in the jaws of a government meat grinder. For Lemieux, if he really loved Big Brother, he wouldn’t want to have a gun because he knows that BB will protect him…its rather double-plus disturbing, this desire to own a gun, isn’t it?
Canada is, of course, Canada – but Canada’s ideas of government is precisely what President Obama wants to bring to the United States. Will we fight it off, or just give up because tedious bureaucrats can just endlessly annoy us? Time will tell.
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