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p> SMILEY FASCISM br> Re: Shawn Macomber's Nannies Come Home to Roost : /p>

Actually, when fascism comes to America, its adherents will announce the arrival with neither bogus public-interest studies nor mindless child-protection bromides. Rather, proponents will signal fascism's advent by parading around in red armbands emblazoned with a large, yellow smiley face -- the perfect symbol for today's breed of food Nazis, teetotaling do-gooders, priggish moralists and all the rest.

Macomber's Q&A with Harsanyi was one of the best pieces the AmSpec has run since...well, since 24 hours earlier. I genuinely appreciated this article. It gave voice to stuff I've been feeling for years about the professional busybodies among us.

p>However, the ultimate irony remains that it is the Sixties countercultural revolutionaries who are most responsible for foisting upon us the nanny state. They promised radical new freedom and instead delivered a society far more uptight and hypocritical than that of the parents they so perversely reviled. br> -- Rich Smith br> Yucca Valley, California /p>

Busy day. Two quick thoughts:

1. I wonder from whom the Nannyists bought their fervid belief in "the intense and nefarious power of marketing dollars."

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