Free country?

Samuel Adams was an American Revolutionary.

"How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words."

Mandate is the one word that has become a staple of the Obama administration. In my entire life I rarely heard or read that word until Obama became president. Now we are spinning in a world of mandates in every aspect of our lives.

How much more in our lives can this president mandate or order us to do something a majority of We the People are adverse to?

True, there are to be rules in life to minimize chaos and perpetuate order, but when the rules begin to oppress, when the rules begin to go against the moral beliefs of most of the people, when the rules become a tool to control every aspect of a citizen's life...we are no longer a free country.

Are the future generations of children going to honestly be able to say "It's a free country!" When challenged by a peer on the playground that he desist in whatever childish endeavor which he is inclined? No, because the concept of a free country will no longer be driven into his mind. He will be the product of just another oppressed and mandated life in just another socialist regime.