Ten thousand dollars in application fees by Text-Enhance" id="_GPLITA_0" href="/Article/138630-2013-07-23-labeling-non-gmo-food-why-its-a-bad-idea.htm#">to apply for a license in order to label food?

Is this for real? How do these criminals justify this????????????

Are we living in the Twilight Zone?

You have to have a license to label food? Do you have to have a license to eat it too? How about getting rid of it after eating it?

The the madness ever stop?

"Twilight zone"? No, govt. zone. It will end when we end govt. Disagree? Want govt.? The onus of proof is on you. And ALL the evidence for ALL governments since recorded history is against you. Sooner of later, you have to concede that there is no government like no government. Of course, that would mean YOU have to step up and take responsibility for yourself. But you do anyway, even if you don't want to face it. When you face reality you can begin to plan realistically and act responsibly. And you will feel less anxiety, because YOU are building YOUR life, not hoping some bureaucrat will save you.  

I don't know what you mean, DD. Ending Government in it's current form would be good. Certainly ending the current bureaucracy would be good. But consider. The major reason crooks and criminals who are NOT in Government do NOT do more damage than that which they do already is, FEAR OF GOVERNMENT.

Because of the kind of sheep the people have become, it is hard to understand what things would be like if the people were free... as Ernie says, "between their ears." Even if we knew what a non-sheeple-people-population would be like, and even if we wanted it that way, is there any way to "jump" the people into that kind of state of mind from the sheeple mentality they are in now? Wouldn't there be a lot of damage done among the sheeple in a sudden conversion from sheeple into people?

Throughout the whole time-period that non-Native Americans have been living on this continent, there have been times of mob action by them, acting on supposed bad guys. Many innocent people have been executed over the last 300 years because the mob-like vigilante groups - often made up of the whole local population - assumed that someone was guilty of something, and they executed him/her without properly gathering and weighing the evidence. Often the person was executed simply because of a difference in life-style or religion, rather than any harm or damage he/she had done. MOB-LIKE VIGILANTE ACTION IS GOVERNMENT.

THE BIG POINT IS, there is never really such a thing as NO GOVERNMENT. The idea of long term NO GOVERNMENT is an idealistic impossibility! The no-government state might exist for a short period, in some areas maybe for a few years, but government ALWAYS returns, naturally, sooner or later. Why?

Government ALWAYS comes into being, naturally, automatically, for at least one of these two reasons:
1. Crooks and robbers get together, forming a criminal government, so that they can plunder the people;
2. Good people form a government to defend themselves against a government of criminals, or they get together to do projects that they couldn't easily do individually - quilting bees, and barn raising bees are a form of government in action.

Personally, I would like the freedom of voluntary Government, where the only people included in the Governmental action were those who had FORMALLY WITH UNDERSTANDING volunteered to be within the Government's authority and activity. All the rest of the people would be outside the authority of that Government.

But if there were NO government, there wouldn't be any cars or trucks, no computers, no electricity or plumbing, none of the modern conveniences, etc. Why not? Because corporate operation is essentially GOVERNMENT.

Is there a way to make a Federal Government that has all the good points of the one we have now, without any of the bad points? If there is, it must include stiff punishments for Government officials who step outside their Oath of Office. If there is, it must include a constant, active intent to follow the spirit of the Constitution by Government Officials. If there is, it must include a built-in STRONG, method for Government dissolution by the people if it gets out of control. If there is, it must include "hands off the people" while including "hands on the Government" by the people.

If we had kept the Articles of Confederation, not allowing the Federal Government to become as strong as it has, would the whole of North America have become feudal States, more or less like Europe before the European Union?

Something needs to be done about the current situation. But the result will never be NO GOVERNMENT. And a straight-forward shutting down of the current Government will allow a whole bunch of folks who want to take control of whole areas of the nation, to be able to effectively do it overnight. The Mafia is a form of Government. There is a lot to think about with regard to getting rid of Government.
 
I'd be happy to hear or see the outline of a method of Government dissolution or repair that had a chance of working. If something isn't done soon, the coming Government implosion will hurt a lot of people.