Yes, that is the way we talk in America, you stupid fascists:
Bittman likes Freudenberg’s debunking of notions of “rights and choice,” because he agrees that “we need… more than a few policies nudging people toward better health.” As Freudenberg told Bittman: “What we need… is to return to the public sector the right to set health policy and to limit corporations’ freedom to profit at the expense of public health.” Oh! Did you see that? Freudenberg said “right.” He said “right” in the context of government, and he spoke of returning this “right” — a right to control people — to government. He’s saying “right” where the legal term is actually “power.” He wants government power at the expense of rights. And the fact that he speaks of the “return” of power to the government is either deceptive or unAmerican. We are free and have a right to do what we want until we give power to government. If the laws that restrict us are repealed, it makes sense to speak of returning rights to the people, but it’s wrong and really offensive to characterize new restrictions in terms of returning a right to the government.
I know it sounds like crazy talk to you, but we really do have rights to do things of which you disapprove.
People like this should be “nudged” out of town on a rail, bedecked with petroleum bi-products and bird coverings.
As a side note, I’d bet this guy would also tell me I don’t have a right to risk my life in a spaceship.
Of course you have no right to risk your life in a spaceship. It would increase others’ premiums and government payments for health.
In fact, we here at central control could prohibit you from taking any risks at all – say, driving?
We’re just holding off on that a bit.
Give us time…
Signed,
“The Government” (aka “The Humanoids”)
I’m convinced that the reason why the governing and corporate elites of both parties are so hell-bent on amnesty is that they are tired of dealing with native-born Americans who annoyingly insist on such outdated notions as “rights”. Better to replace us with illiterate Third World serfs who are under no such illusions and know their place.
I thought deregulating immigration was another consequence of “rights talk.”
If that’s the case (I’m not convinced that it is) the elites are in for a big shock.
It won’t matter to them if they’re wrong, because their money and position will insulate them from the worst of the consequences of their error. It’s their middle-class and lower supporters who will catch the fallout right between the eyes.
It’ll be hilarious, for example, when the third-generation Obamaphone voters find out that the ‘new minority in town’ packs a bigger influence stick than they do…
Mark Bittman also wanted foods labelled according to “foodness.”
It explains much about NASA over the last 4 decades. Safe is an excuse.