“Catching Pigs”

Yesterday I received an email that struck me as describing what is happening in America to a “T”. It was titled:

“Catching Pigs”

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in his class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter? The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country - who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?" The professor thought it was a joke, and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke.

"You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again, and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."

The young man then told the professor – “This is exactly what I see happening in America”.

A fence called “air pollution”

There are many types of “pig pens” being built across this country; air pollution is just one that is being used to remove freedoms from us Americans.

I want clean air just like everyone else, but realistically, we have reached a point where legislating our environment is more about controlling us and less about protecting us.

After all, it is impossible to completely legislate clean air unless you know some way of keeping the sun from converting some air molecules from good to bad. Or you figure a way to stop the wind from blowing across the Sahara and sending millions of metric tons of sand into the atmosphere. Or you can capture all the ash and gas from a volcano. Or you can instantly stop any and all wild land fires across the whole world. Or you can keep any structure from burning, ever. Or you can divert the thousands of meteorites that burn up in the atmosphere every year. Or you can cap every geo-thermal gas vent on the planet.

The reality of life is: Life on Earth is deadly and no matter how many laws you pass, in the end, somehow, someway, you will die anyway. So… why not die free?

The dogma of environmentalism
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