As the foremost political commentator in Fond du Lac and surrounding areas, I must tell you I was obviously quite taken aback by the assault on freedom underway by the democrat legislature and Jim Doyle. I'll do my worst to quote the parts that made me boil over the most.
"The operators of Grassway Organic Farm in Calumet County allege in a case before a Dane County judge that the state has no right to stop them from selling milk to customers who have become part-owners of the farm."
I can almost not describe how screwed up the situation described in this quote is; what it says about the current state of liberty in Wisconsin and also just how anti-business this state has become -mostly under the guise of public good and safety. Good thing I have never experienced an "almost" situation in my life. "Shit or get off the pot. But so help me God if you clog it..." my dad would always say to me. Not in so many words, but you get the idea. What I'm trying to say is that I'm awesome was also born with a silver tongue - perfectly equipped to lie and cheat and decieve with the eloquence of a Nabakov novel. Had I not given my life to the cause of personal liberty I may have become a parasite myself.
Well kids, let's begin! The state of Wisconsin is trying to squash consensual buisiness transactions at every turn, and it is no more evident than with this(though this being just the latest in a list that is long and really boring) court case. These farmers are selling a product that has value on the free and open market. How do we know this? Because there is demand for it. How do we know there is demand for it? Because the state of Wisconsin is trying to destroy that same demand. A terrible circle, indeed.
This is what these socialist narccicists do: when people exercising choice and free will choose to do or buy something that they may consider heinous or a vice or unsafe or whatever, they then seek to eliminate the choices available to the chooser until they are only offered items that are acceptable to their own worldview or moral code or however you'd like to describe it. I tend to think in such terms that they just hate all human beings except for themselves.
Again, take a look at the quoted part of the article. They are only selling to members of a cool farmer-raw milk-drinking fraternity complete with 'Members Only' jackets. The farmers probably would like to sell to as many people as he would like, but instead has to cower and placate to the State by in effect saying, "Well we're only selling it to THESE people, nobody else is allowed to buy it.". This sort of faux self-regulation makes a mockery of the very position they are trying to defend.
Admit you want to sell raw milk on the open market at Pick 'n Saves and Piggly Wiggly's everywhere, at market value. Tell them that you have been a farmer your whole life and who better to know if milk is safe to be consumed than a milk-farmer who has been around it their entire life?
In the end, this will ironically come down to a choice(something trying to be stifled in this very topic). A choice between being able to decide for yourself if you want to buy and consume raw milk, and having that same choice taken completely out of your hands by the mobsters in the state legislature. Will you be on the side that promotes personal choice or the side that destroys it?
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SERIOUS UPDATE - Added hyperlink to make it cooler.
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