Democrats joyfully embrace new neo-con fascism

Well, Well, Well, here I am again, bitching about our "Democrats". Aren't the Democrats supposed to be the liberal party? Hmmm...what does liberal mean? Well, it finds it's roots in the Latin liberalis from liber, meaning free.

Let me introduce you to the Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman from LA. Rep Waxman feels that the government doesn't know enough about you. He feels that the government has the right to your medical records, even if you aren't personally suspected of a crime. According to the L.A. Times His committee has issued a subpoena for medical records of the entirety of Major League baseball players for the last 2 years.

Why? Well, Rep Waxman is afraid of steroids. It's clear he isn't afraid of the constitution or anything like that.

This is the way it's going. Waxy is concerned about steroids in baseball. MLB, in case you didn't know, is a private business. MLB drug tests, for a lot of things, but especially steroids. Rep Waxman, like I said, is very concerned (I think a bit like Joe Stalin was concerned) that the baseball players are just like Arnold. So, his committee has subpoenaed all the drug tests since 2003. See here is the problem, MLB signed an agreement that these records were a private matter between the League, and the players. But, since Rep. Waxman doesn't believe in the Fourth Amendment (remember, that's the one that says you can't search anyone, or their effects, without reasonable suspicion that the individual has done something wrong), he has subpoenaed all the records. Why? Matt Welch over at Reason says "publicity", and of course in essence, he's right.

Lets me quote Matt;

"In other words, Congress is asserting its right to your drug tests, even if they were conducted based on a private agreement between employer and union, and even if the results—including disciplinary action—were understood at the time to be secret. About half of all employers test for drugs, and an estimated 50 million tests are performed each year. Should the federal government have the right to subpoena your private medical records?

That's hardly the only power-grab in this show trial. Waxman's committee (which is chaired by the equally distasteful Virginia Republican Tom Davis), literally believes it can investigative anything and everything it wants to. "Under the rules of the House," Davis and Waxman wrote Major League Baseball on Thursday, "the Committee on Government Reform may at any time conduct investigations of any matter.'"
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Somehow, the government being able to get my medical records (and if they request that, why can't they request all the results that your doctor may have of you?) doesn't exactly inspire me to jump up and say "Yea, freedom".

Personally I suspect that the freedom to have baseball players steroid "free", is not quite as important as the freedom to keep the government from reading my medical records just because it suspects people like me, mind you not me, just people like me, "might" be committing a crime.

You know it's scary when even baseball players sound like me...(once again from Matt) here is the Philly pitcher, Randy Wolfe;

"It's kind of a 1984 deal where basically, they want to know everything you're doing at all times, and because we're in the public spotlight our civil liberties are flushed down the toilet. "

When I was young I didn't see the difference between communism and fascism, they both seemed evil. Now we get to find out what they are like when combined, and in our own country! Oh boy, this must be that freedom that rides a horse of a different color.

Bush on the right, asserting that he has the right to hold any American without judge, jury, or warrant. Waxman on the left asserting that you have no rights to be secure from search.

And I thought we had won when the Berlin wall fell, and everyone found out about the millions of dead under Stalin and Lenin, that we finally had proof about the absolute staggaring oppresion. Little did I ever guess at the time that we would try to be the new USSA. United States of Soviet America. All hail the Homeland.

There now, don't you feel free?