Wednesday, August 20, 2014

“Because that's just the way it is in the Land of the Free.”

“Because that's just the way it is in the Land of the Free.”  Imagine that for some reason you owned a set of antique bagpipes that you played competitively.  These bagpipes, which you own legally, happen to have some components made of ivory.  What do you suppose you'd have to go through to take those bagpipes to (say) Canada and bring them back home?

Mark Steyn has the unbelievable details.  As I read his piece (and other articles I found on the incidents), I just wanted to crawl into a corner and cry – for the loss of the land of the free that America once was.  Now we're the land of the bureaucratic boot, smashing our faces into the dirt...

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