FOX BUSINESS STAR JOHN STOSSEL JOINS RACINE TEA PARTY SEPT 11TH EVENT

Posted by Kevin Fischer on Sept. 7, 2010

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***MEDIA ADVISORY***   INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER JOHN STOSSEL TO HIGHLIGHT RACINE TEA PARTY   Racine, WI - Fox Business and Fox News star John Stossel will highlight the Racine Tea Party's Tribute & Town Hall on Saturday, September 11th from 2:00pm to 3:30pm at Racine's Pershing Park. In addition to Stossel, the event will feature Vicki McKenna, The God Squad's Pastor David King, climate expert Nigel Innes, Congressman Paul Ryan and more. The state director of Americans for Prosperity, Mark Block, says politicians need to wake up and realize that November is coming. "The tea party movement is deeper and stronger than anyone realizes," Block said, "This Freedom Rally in Sheboygan will be a star-studded event that will echo all the way to November." WHAT: Racine Tea Party Tribute & Town Hall on Jobs, the Economy and the Deficit. WHERE: Pershing Park, 500 Pershing Drive, Racine, WI WHEN: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 2:00pm-3:30pm WHO: John Stossel, Fox Business and Fox News Congressman Paul Ryan Vicki McKenna Nigel Innes, climate expert Pastor David King, Milwaukee God Squad And More   # # #
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Attacks on Freedom
By John Stossel

Something's happened to America, and it isn't good. It's become easier to get into trouble. We've become a nation of a million rules. Not the kind of bottom-up rules that people generate through voluntary associations. Those are fine. I mean imposed, top-down rules formed in the brains of meddling bureaucrats who think they know better than we how to manage our lives.

Cross them, and we are in trouble.

The National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS) received an anonymous fax that a seafood shipment to Alabama from David McNab contained "undersized lobster tails" and was improperly packed in clear plastic bags, rather than the cardboard boxes allegedly required under Honduran law. When the $4 million shipment arrived, NMFS agents seized it. McNab served eight years in prison, even though the Honduran government informed the court that the regulation requiring cardboard boxes had been repealed.

How about this one? Four kindergartners -- yes, 5-year-old boys -- played cops and robbers at Wilson Elementary in New Jersey. One yelled: "Boom! I have a bazooka, and I want to shoot you." He did not, of course, have a bazooka. Nevertheless, all four boys were suspended from school for three days for "making threats," a violation of their school district's zero-tolerance policy. School Principal Georgia Baumann said, "We cannot take any of these statements in a light manner." District Superintendent William Bauer said: "This is a no-tolerance policy. We're very firm on weapons and threats."

Give me a break. These are just some of the stories featured in a new book, "One Nation Under Arrest".