i'm not NDP...

in light of recent affronts to the concept of free will and human rights, no matter how small the scale, i thought it in my best interests to make sure it was clear that my last post in no way supported the NDP.
for those who don't know, Layton and his gaggle of regulators are attempting to ban, not control, not supervise the production of, but BAN, artificially processed trans fats. you know, the things that make things like donuts and cereals and pizzas and greasy cheesburgers the good things they are. on the surface, they're saying "we want Canadians to be healthy". sounds downright noble, doesn't it? But what they're really saying is "we want to force Canadians to be healthy". and that's repugnant. It's a slap in the face to anyone with a mind of their own. we're not children. and even those who ARE children have parents of their own. this isn't public safety, this isn't general health, this is CONTROL.
it's not like we're stupid. i don't think anyone goes into a Tim Hortons and buys a box of maple donuts (great, great invention, those...) thinking to themselves "this is the healthiest thing i can do for myself". we choose them because we like them, because we want them.
the government has a responsibility to increase awareness, to make sure that deception of the public is kept to a minimum, but their responsibility to us stops well short of deciding for us what we can and can not eat. if i decide, tomorrow, to live entirely on a diet of chocolate bars and slurpees, there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it, and that's the way it should be. teach, educate, inform, warn, but don't take away our choice. it's one step closer to dictatorship than i like to think we're capable of taking.