America prides itself on being the land of the brave and the home of the free, yet you definitely are not free if the government monitors your every action, and proselytizes to you and makes you to suffer endless propaganda, and tells you what foods you can or can't eat, and makes laws both arbitrary and capricious. Today's government is force, it is power, it controls your freedom of movement, your thought, and your employment. Every power given to government is less power aggrandized to you to make your own decisions and to make your own way. A government that in theory can give you everything is the same government that can take away from you everything, including your life.
Our government likes to pretend that it is your big brother, looking out for your best interests, and that it is intimately concerned about your welfare. The government says that it just wants to help you to make better decisions but in point of fact, the government mainly wants you to obey it, and to not think for yourself. The most basic questions that all men should answer, is who should rule your life, yourself, or the government? If you believe that it is the government, than you need to change not a thing in your life, because the government from cradle to grave will take care of you in every aspect of your life, for better or for worse. If you believe, instead, that you should be the master of your own fate, than you are a true American and a true patriot to your country, which is a country created by the consent of the governed.
The government wants and does mandate what things you can or cannot do with your body. Each year, the individual cedes more and more control of his body to the State, so that the State can determine what foods you can or cannot consume what drinks you can or cannot drink, and what chemicals you can or cannot assimilate into your own body. While the government claims that it is doing this all in your best interests, the government conveniently forgets, that our Creator has blessed each of us with our own mind and our own thoughts, so that we can make our own decisions, ourselves.
The steps for total government control start first from controlling what you are and are not allowed to do with your own body, all under the guise that the government is concerned about your health. The next step is to control and to monitor your activities throughout the day, through social media, through your cell phone, through GPS, so that the government knows where you are at all times, so that it has the data to find you and to deal with you at any time of day. The final step in governmental control is to control your behavior, which is for the government to reward "right" behavior and to punish "wrong" behavior. These rewards and punishments are not based on Judeo-Christian principles, far from it; instead they are based on the dictates of the State and its powerful apparatus.
They say that "nothing is really free", mainly because there will come a time when the real master must be paid in blood, in coin, or whatever that it desires. A real man has no king but the King Himself, and conducts his life with this knowledge and the understanding that he is the master of his own fate; whereas those that cede their God-given sovereignty to the State will reap what they sow.