Saturday, September 22, 2007

By Royal Decree

Here’s a man who is willing to piss away his freedom because he is too uncivilized to control his own base desires - and assumes that nobody else can either. 

The real issue, of course, is that most of us simply can’t handle much freedom. While we’d like to think we’re free to do whatever we want, we certainly don’t want everyone else to be free.

I think we all can agree that it’s a good thing we’re not free enough to buy crack cocaine at Walgreens or to buy semiautomatic weapons on street corners or to sell toys covered in lead-based paint to children.

Over the past 10,000 years of human history, we’ve been struggling to emerge from the “freedom” of our worst instincts to evolve into a society with the shallowest veneer of civilization.

If it takes a few laws that prevent me from lighting up a cigar in a restaurant or a waiting period for me to buy a pistol to help rein in our worst instincts, I’m all for it.

So for goodness sake, sit up straight, buckle your seat belt and listen to your nanny for a change.

What a sniveling little turd.  He’s free to throw his freedoms on the altar of tyranny to have others protect him from himself, but as for me… I’ll put my faith in liberty.

(6) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2125 hrs
Culture + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. “What a sniveling little turd.”

    So much for trying to raise the level of discourse.  Is this your version of “do as I say and not as I do?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 22, 2007 at 2242 hrs


  2. I’ll put my faith in liberty.

    Amen!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 22, 2007 at 2319 hrs


  3. Yeah!

    Bet he’s for unlimited wire taps and government surveillance too!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 23, 2007 at 0801 hrs


  4. I agree with ataripb - Owen, you have insulted turds everywhere. This is the kind of guy that aspiring fascists love.

    Posted by Charlie Hillman on September 23, 2007 at 0915 hrs


  5. Wow—when I saw your comment I worried that you might be talking about Rep. Frank Lasee (R-Green Bay)!


    Original Story URL: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=665949

    Pall of hypocrisy hangs over Lasee
    Self-appointed inquisitor has peccadillo of his own

    By Daniel Bice
    No Quarter
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    September 23, 2007
     

    You know what they say about guys who live in glass houses.

    Well, state Rep. Frank Lasee resides in a crystal palace.

    When last we met up with the state rep, he was asking lots of questions about the sex lives of students in Brown Deer. Based on a tip from a constituent, Lasee directed Brown Deer school officials to investigate ridiculous claims that African-American students were regularly having sex with each other in a racially segregated school hallway, in classrooms and on school buses.

    Hanky-panky here, there and everywhere.

    As it turns out, the Green Bay-area lawmaker knows a thing or two about sexual promiscuity.

    Brown County court records show that Lasee, a strict social and fiscal conservative, had an out-of-wedlock child a few years ago and waged a legal battle with the mother over child support.

    Two years ago, Kari Manteufel, a 38-year-old De Pere woman, filed a paternity suit against Lasee, naming him as the father of her daughter. Manteufel gave birth to a girl in November 2004, the same year that a judge finalized the terms of Lasee’s contentious divorce from his wife.

    So much for family values.

    A couple of weeks after the paternity suit was filed, Manteufel and Lasee reached a deal under which the lawmaker acknowledged he was the father. The order also established that the baby would live primarily with the mother and that Lasee would pay a minimum of $650 a month in child support.

    All well and good. But then in November, Manteufel asked the court to find Lasee in contempt for failing to pay his full child support and not fully documenting his income to her. He countered by calling on the judge to find her in contempt.

    In January, a court commissioner denied her motion. Lasee then voluntarily agreed to withdraw his.

    Contacted Friday, Manteufel declined to discuss the case.

    Overall, it sounds like the seventh-term Republican has a lot on his plate. National attention, none of it good, for his goofy plan to arm teachers. Almost no support for his proposal to strip the University of Wisconsin Law School of its state funding. Child support to an ex-wife for two kids. And more child support for a third child.

    With all this going on, what’s Lasee doing firing off letters inquiring about the sex lives of children in a district 120 miles from his own?

    Unfortunately, Lasee, who is considering a run for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen, has little to say about this. The self-described “father of TABOR” - his proposed constitutional amendment on taxes - is ducking questions about his other paternity issues.

    Reached by cell phone, he was curt.

    Just before hanging up, Lasee said, “I understand the type of journalism you do, so you can do it without my help.”

    Not true, not true at all.

    There’d be nothing to write about here without all the material being supplied by this veteran lawmaker.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 23, 2007 at 1142 hrs


  6. An excellent discussion of the same phenomenon is here:

    http://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html#1244490190718474402

    It’s also very brief.

    Posted by dad29 on September 23, 2007 at 2036 hrs


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