PC Police at it again

I can't believe the story I just read. I'm glad it is in England, and I love the lady's response and of that of her neighborhood, but still? A neighborhood association telling someone their Christmas lights, which are on their private property, are offensive and to take them down? PULEASE! Yeh man, "Bugger Off!!".

Throughout the Election season people were rolling their eyes at Republicans and their assertion that Obama would lead us towards socialism. I, for one, did not appreciate that but hey, I guess I'm a fear-monger for agreeing to such things, right? Maybe not.

Apparently, socialistic values have been creeping in for a while and are being shown in multiple examples now by the local (umm .. democratic) governments!
Case(s) in point (from monicamemo.com):

Faced with a $12.5 billion deficit next year, New York Governor
David Paterson .. is teeing up the following:
Higher gasoline taxes
New taxes on clothing
New taxes on health insurance
Requiring new
license plates ...
... "anti-obesity" tax on non-diet soda.
If you want a
Diet Coke, no problem. If you want a Classic Coke, you're screwed. Wait,
correction: According to New York State, you're fat AND you're screwed.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has put into effect all
kinds of intrusions, including banning transfats ... and putting a 6 cent
surcharge on all plastic bags.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has banned plastic water
bottles. Most cities and states have passed widespread smoking bans, instead of
allowing individual establishments to determine whether or not to allow smoking.
And who can forget The Bama's campaign statement: "We can't drive our SUV's,
you know, eat as much as we want, and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at
all times."

This is incremental fascism. It starts with plastic water bottles, moves on
to non-diet soda, and ends with you in Orwellian chains of an oppressive
nation-state. It's time we demanded some of our freedoms back, and a reversal
of those we've already lost. *

For the record, as someone misunderstood something in one of my signatures on iVillage, "Obamaphobia" is a word some uses to describe a "fear of socialism". Not wanting your capitolistic country to take a turn towards socialism does NOT mean that one does not like people who are socialists or live in socialist countries. There is a VAST difference!! Some may not agree that Obama would do that, but I and others believe he would, and I expect frankly nothing less than respect from others for me to have my opinion, as I respect their right to their own opinions that might differ from my own.
Afterall, in America, that's what it's supposed to be :o)