Climate of Control

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The President wants to install smart devices in our homes under the guise that it will help us control energy use. Under the guise that we consume too much energy and that in order for the rest of the world to know peace and prosperity we know less, he wants more and more control over our lives. Ten years ago, nobody knew who in Halifax this man was, but now he knows how to do everything better than anyone else.

Under Obama's leadership, the nation moves closer to the Envirostatist utopia akin to that in Orwell's 1984. They want to control us. They want to impoverish us. They took advantage of a crisis to strip us of liberty. Well was the warning in V for Vendetta. "I know why you did it. You were afraid...war, terror, disease, and in your fear you turned to [Obama]. He promised you peace. He promised you order and all he wanted was your silent, obedient consent so that where once you had freedom you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity..."

Nevada Energy has already signed onto this, and craigslist in Las Vegas has been inundated for days with ads for free digital thermostats. If you can control the temperature in your home from any PC, what prevents anyone else, including a bureaucrat, from doing it from his?

They're already in our homes. We have phone lines, low-flow toilets, code regulations on what we can and cannot do on our own property, how loud we can be, how many cars we can park out front and how many dogs we may own. They already have us register our dogs; how long before they have us register ourselves?

In June 2000, I returned from living abroad in Austria. Austria is a socialist nation where they know who you are and where you live and when you moved and where you've ever lived. As a missionary, I didn't worry too much, but they also pay a minimum 40% income tax to pay for universal healthcare and the like. This means that about half the population doesn't work, living in government housing that is no larger than my office at work, plus a separate bathroom if they're lucky. They sit around all day smoking and playing chess. They never become anything. They think they're free.

Our government wants to follow the blueprint of Europe. I have lived there. It's not a panacea. It's dirty and dark and depressing. I have never been so glad to see the United States. God, it's great to be home. Let them keep their climate of control. Keep your free digital thermostat NVEnergy; I'd rather buy one you can't control from afar.