Parts of this article were copied from the ABC News - Sunday Aug.19, 2007
Where is the right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?

In New York the trademark jingle of the iconic ice cream truck has been silenced.
What?? No more ice cream jingles?
I am SHOCKED and DISGUSTED !
I grew up waiting for the ice cream man and so did my children.
Good Grief..That is almost like killing Snoopy or violently pulling a child's security blankey away.
I am having withdrawal symptoms just reading this.
When the 3 or 4 different ice cream trucks come by my house in the afternoon, I plan to run out and kiss the drivers.
Might even buy all of the ice cream in the truck and throw it into the air for the kids to catch.

In Sacramento you have to use your inside voice on a thrill ride called the Screamer.

Man..Where is the fun in riding a roller coaster or other wild ride if you can't scream?
I'm not sure that the control involved might not cause some serious psychological side effects and then you can sue the amusement company.



And in Murpheesboro, Tenn., the city council implemented a body odor ban on its workers. Forget your deodorant and you could be breaking the law.
"If it's an odor that is offensive to those around them, and if there are complaints," a member of city council said, "then that is the test."
But that was not enough of an argument to convince the workers the ban would affect.
One worker said, "If you work, you're going to perspire, you're going to smell."

Are the workers now going to be able to use the excuse that they can not do ha physical labor because they will violate the BOBO (Ban on Body Odor) ?
I would..This would cause me to set down on my astrick and refuse to work.
If they fired me, I would sue them because I was simply in compliance with BOBO.
And if the boss has a gas attack over this...BOBO him/her.


With more and more schools and local governments telling people what they can't do these days, some say America has become a nation of bans.

"Bans are the easy shorthand way for people to deal with problems or ideas they don't like, or actions they think are too dangerous for folks," said Kevin Keenan of the ACLU. "And too often, it slips quickly into the absurd."

There was the case of graduation caps decorated in honor of the United States Army that collided with a school weapons ban. Two fifth graders in California were forced to take weapons off of the mortar boards they had decorated for their graduation.
"I had to use scissors and just cut my Army man off right there in front of everybody," said Cole McNamara, 11, "and I had to step aside before graduation."
The principal told the students that if they wanted to graduate alongside their fifth grade class, they had to cut the guns off their toy soldiers.
"I put gauze around the stubs and I colored them red so it looked they were wounded," McNamara said.
"There was a lack of reasonableness and a lack of common sense," said Glen Nakata, the father of Austin Nakata, one of the boys asked to alter his graduation cap.
McNamara's mother, Christine, said the boys were denied their personal expression.
"It's an extreme interpretation of what they are calling a zero tolerance policy," she said.

Take a look at a Mexican classroom.
This is normal !
I have have been a teacher here for more than 25 years.
In order to control the kids, we would have to remove everything from the classrooms and then truss them up tightly.
Gun control is a minor issue here, but why is it, with all this control that is being instituted in the US, there is more violence in the school.
Gee...Could it be that all of this over control is psychological damaging?