Soapbox Page of Mac Stevens

• Air Travel Security
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Government Gasoline Price Control
• Gun Control
• Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
• State-run lotteries

• "Welcome to flight 907 to Calcutta ... For the safety of you and those around you we have provided self-defense items within easy access. Please take the time to become familiar with them. In your armrest is a custom .357 ; verify that it's loaded with 3 shots of tranquilizer bullets and three rubber bullets. In the tray table in front of you are two cans of pepper spray and an electric stun gun..."

• Voted legitimate by the authoritatives.

• The authoritatives admit they can't cure it and don't understand what causes it.
• Existence of disorder subject of vote?
• ADHD is caused by a lack of Ritalin in one's diet?
• Ritalin: the miracle newly-discovered missing food group!
• New criteria for well-adjusted citizens: 1. pays attention to the correct stimulus. 2. listens. 3. obeys instructions. 4. enjoys tasks requiring sustained mental effort. 5. loses nothing required for assigned tasks. 6. doesn't fidget. hands and feet are still. 7. remains seated when expected to remain seated. 8. runs or climbs only when appropriate. 9. plays quietly, engages in leisure activities quietly. 10. is not "on the go" or acting as if "driven by a motor". 11. speaks only at designated times, in proper order. 12. doesn't interrupt others or intrude in their conversations. 13. in summary, incapable of self-determined action, susceptible to control.

• Short term benefit to consumers.

• When we gain the right to demand cheap gasoline (or anything), we lose the right to free trade, and you soon will need government approval on the price of any product or service you sell.
• We should use cleaner energy sources: 1 2 3 4 5
• If you don't have choice of which energy source you use, then correct your lack of freedom instead of asking your government to infringe on someone else's.

• A gun in unskilled hands is dangerous.
• Anybody could get hit.
• Look, if you don't control your gun, you won't hit your target.
• Your gun may be taken from you, for example, by your congressman:

Personal Firearm Legislation

• United States Bill of Rights, Amendment II
• When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

• Voted legitimate by the authoritatives.
• more criteria for correct personalities: 1. neglects details, rules, lists, order, organization and schedules in order to maintain the purpose of the activity. 5. throws away garbage.

• more criteria for correct personalities: 2. completes tasks whether or not standards are upheld. 3. puts leisure activities ahead of productive work, except when driven to work by obvious economic necessity. 4. is unconscientious, unscrupulous, and loose in matters of morality, ethics and values (except for religious or cultural reasons) 6. delegates tasks to others without regard to the manner of their performance. 7. spends money quickly, saves little or none. 8. not stubborn or rigid.

• Participation is not yet mandatory.

• Gambling doesn't align with any valid purpose of government.
• This opens the door to other off-purpose state-run activites: (car racing, condom sales, prostitution, why not?)
• Is this an admission that the government's "legitimate" activities are not worthy of support on their own merits, and therefore need additional funding?

soapbox - noun 1. a box or crate for soap 2. any improvised platform used by a person (soapbox orator) making an informal, often impassioned speech to a street audience, as on a current, controversial issue -- Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition, (c) 1988