Video:Kids Arrested in DC on Lemonade Freedom Day

In a city that always contends for the title of murder capital of the US, the cops can't protect residents from thieves, rapists and murderers, but do have time to protect them from unregistered lemonade:

That's tyranny, not liberty. In DC.Just before the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr memorial. Why even open a memorial for a civil rights leader in a place that has barred that very notion? Via Carpe Diem. More information here. This comes directly on this post from just a few days ago: Nanny State: Cancer Patient Forbidden From Raising Money With Yard Sale On Own Property. That soft tyranny is congealing into a rather hard one. There is no level of government too small for tyrants to mind your own business. After a rash of childrens' lemonade stands have been closed down by police across the country (Again? Police in GA shut down girls' lemonade stand), more regulatory idiocy and a further assault on property rights:

Other nanny state news over at drudge:

• Town Examines Swing Set Rules... 


• Parents could face fine for burying 10-month old son on property... 


• Land not zoned as cemetery...

Nothing is out of reach of nanny state busy bodies. No matter how silly a decision (swings, lemonade), or how personal (burying your kid), there's a bureaucrat waiting on the grassy knoll with a bullhorn to tell you what to do. I'll leave you all with this:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C.S. Lewis