Can you name anything NOT controlled by the State at some level?

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Jack 99

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I read a post at AR15.com about a sex party that got busted and one of the charges was "supplying implements of masturbation."

Up until yesterday, I would have said that, at a bare minimum, we could masturbate in peace without government regulation. Obviously, I assumed to much.

Now I'm scratching my head trying to think of ANYTHING that's not regulated at some level by government. Can't come up with a single thing. Can anyone think of anything we do that's Gubmint-Free?
 
ok whats really really sad is that before I read this i thought about the title, Sex? No Thought? No. then I jokingly thought Masterbation. Then I read the post.

i'm not sure how to deal with this.
 
The essentials:

Breathing: regulated under EPA standards for clean air, as well as under various anti-smoking laws ...

Eating: there are laws about what kind of pesticides can be used upon it, what size the printing on the label giving the ingredients must be, how the stuff is packaged ...

Going potty: regulated under about a gajillion separate standards -- building codes, septic system codes, EPA regulations on clean water ...

You'd have to die to escape the gubmint. Only, there are a lot of laws about what can and cannot be done to dispose of a corpse.

*sigh*

pax

"Patrick Henry should come back to see what taxation WITH representation is like." -- Bob Phillips
 
Their employees. Have you heard that the Highway Department here laid off 1,000 road workers. They found an out-of-state supplier for shovels that stand up by themselves. John
 
Deposits to the heavenly treasury. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:20,21)

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Alexander Solzhenitzyn:
"Freedom is given to the human conditionally, in the assumption of his constant religious responsibility."
 
johnbt, that's a good one. ;)

Actually, even sadder ... notice how many news stories now mention, with horror, that such and such an industry or product is not regulated!!!! We've come all the way to where the average American believes something is wrong is a product or service is unregulated, unlicensed, not certified by the state, etc. Sad, very sad.

And, our public schools are working hard to churn out more such fools everyday.

Regards from AZ
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Keiller TN:
Deposits to the heavenly treasury. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:20,21)[/quote]

Keiller, what you wrote is true -- unless you apply it by tithing money to your church while owing taxes. The gubmint can and will take it back from your church. Case made a big splash (last year? year before that?)

pax

"I never saw a problem so bad that the government couldn't make it worse." -- H.L. Mencken
 
The Legislature - not only are they not regulated, they exempt themselves from most of the laws they pass for us commoners to follow!

Mikey
 
So far Mikey is the only correct person. Even the Church is heavily regulated by the IRS C3 status. OF course who can forget what happens when the government doesn't approve of your church. I was truly disappointed that the Government has started to regulate Masturbation, and sex in general. I would've figured that would be one thing that would be exempt. Water, air, food, clothing, rights, knowlege, parenting, you name it, the government is into it. I guess I must've been reading the 9th and 10th amendments wrong all along!
 
The Media. They may be controlled but they are not regulated. As far as I'm concerned the DOJ should investigate the major media outlets under RICO and anti-trust.

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It is far better to dare mighty things, though riddled with failure, than to live in the dull grey of mediocrity.
 
I've often said we are the most regulated country in the world. When people tell me this is a free country I often pause and ask them to name three things that they can do without any governmental regulation whatsoever and I'm still waiting. What is sad is that more regulations are on the way. It would be nice if each congress and each legislature was limited in the number of laws they could pass. If that were possible they would have to spend their time on the most important issues. As it is they proud themselves on telling us how many laws they passed. It would be great if they only met every five years.
 
When you are a member of the Armed Forces, you give up certain constitutional rights, and fall under the domain of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice). Among the illegal things covered in the UCMJ are getting a sun burn (Destruction of Government Property), recieving oral sex (Sodomy laws), and masturbating.

I had a buddy who used to say "They can tell me I can't masterbate, but they can't tell me how fast I can wash myself" :)

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"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond."
-Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Jack 99
they can't tell you what to Think yet or how to Vote ;)Originally posted by Jack 99:
I read a post at AR15.com about a sex party that got busted and one of the charges was "supplying implements of masturbation."

Up until yesterday, I would have said that, at a bare minimum, we could masturbate in peace without government regulation. Obviously, I assumed to much.

Now I'm scratching my head trying to think of ANYTHING that's not regulated at some level by government. Can't come up with a single thing. Can anyone think of anything we do that's Gubmint-Free?[/quote]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by po boy:
They can't tell you what to Think yet or ...[/quote]

Well, hate crime laws punish people for their thoughts, in conjunction with certain actions, anyway.
 
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