Casinos

are EVIL! They pull normal people, good and virtious, in off the streets, strip them of their money, and morals, their common decency and free will, and spit them out the exit, bereft of morality, with nothing but a life of crime, drugs and degradation left before them. The flames of hell are fueled by casino signs. Lets ban them!

Pawn shops are evil. They fuel the thirst that is quenched at the keno machines, their only purpose to take the possessions of those that have no other place to turn. They multiply, for no other reason than to support the decadent lifestyle of gamblers.

Fast food restaurants? Obesity is an epidemic in this country. People cannot be allowed to live like this! We must do something! Big tobacco is forcing people to smoke, using underhanded tacticts to influence the ignorant and illiterate, because who else would not know smoking can kill you! You cannot put that store there, someone may not like it! You cannot use those words, someone may get insulted! We cannot allow this free enterprise, freedom of choice, personal responsibility claptrap to continue, our citizens are obviously not able to determine right and wrong for themselves, cannot take responsibility for themselves. Let's legislate, regulate, hand over all choice to the government, it will take care of us!

There is an image in my mind, of Utopia, a perfect place, where every man is equal, and has no more and no less than his neighbor. I can almost make it out, a hazy image, a memory behind a misty gray curtain...