Thou Shall Not Eat Hamburger

There seems to be no limit to the liberal desire to control peoples lives, or so it seems from a new Los Angeles zoning regulation which will prevent fast-food restaurants from setting up shop in single family and poor neighborhoods. While advocates say that residents have no choice but to eat in these restaurants the choice of cooking at home remains for even the poorest families. Rather it is the LA government that is forcing an end to choice.

Many times liberals will repeat the motto "Don't legislate morality". I guess that does not include regulating gluttony. Yet ridiculous laws like this one evasively control the details of a persons life can only be seen as a legislation of an alternative secular morality. There real moral of the story is that their are serious problems with trying to change peoples behavior from the top down as we saw with Prohibition.

Some people believe that it was civil rights legislation that changed the way many Black people where treated in the United States but I disagree. What really made the difference was the way that the civil rights protesters changed peoples opinions. The greatest mistake of modern liberalism is that it does not attempt to change people's opinion and influence their choices. Instead, they focus on top down changes which people understand and clearly see and an attack on their freedoms.

The greatest tragedy of this story is the infamous poverty and lawlessness of the area. In one of the richest cities in the wealthy United States lies one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Unites States without adequate police protection where the morality rate from violence among young men is similar to that of war zone. Instead of helping to deal with these problems the city of Los Angeles has chosen to preach about how their poor eat. Thee shows a patronizing and lack of respect for the freedom of people to make basic choices about their own lives and well as a callousness for there difficulties.

This is let them eat cake LA style.