This may seem like an out-of-the-ordinary story for me to comment on, but bear with me. It will all make sense.

In Minnesota, a Judge has ruled that a 13 year old boy must undergo chemotherapy. The boy has refused said treatment before, and his family has also refused before – both citing religious reasons and a desire to pursue natural remedies.

Let’s cut through all of the pleasantries, hypotheticals, and nonsense – this is, at the core, an invasion of the government into the private lives of American citizens. These sort of actions frighten me greatly, for where will they end? If the government does have a right to step in and tell us what sort of medications and treatments we are to use, at what point do we draw the line? I have seen how inefficient the government can be and presently is.

Let’s consider the case of a diabetic. Would the government simply mandate that he needed an insulin pump and would be given no other alternative? In this situation, simple dieting can be effective and can control many of the problems. I concede the point that cancer is a bit more difficult to understand and treat, but there has been numerous cases where people were treated with natural remedies.

That’s the small picture – the larger picture is hard to grasp. When we secede control over or lives like this to the government, we are simply making it easier for them to take more control at a later date. Freedom is under attack by a beast that will feed on our freedom until there is none left – government.

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