Ultimate Brutality, Or Sport?

I came across this article via someone's post on The Ultimate Fighter forums. It seems the cycle of government is to:

1) Identify potential issues that will score political points threats to people's own safety
2) Pass legislation among other elitist politicians that think they know whats best for us that believe safety trumps personal choice and freedoms.
3) Use the hand of government via force law enforcement to crack the proverbial whip
4) Create more government jobs to enforce said behavior as it approaches epidemic status.
5) Opine that more has to be done to protect people when their perfect plan fails to do what its intended.
6) Cry like little bitches with the mantra "but what about the children?" when defenders of freedom point out the counter-productiveness of their actions and the loss of more personal freedoms for some perceived benefit or safety.

The article goes on to say...

A few years ago, Sen. John McCain called it "human cockfighting," waged a personal campaign and nearly wiped it out. But the Ultimate Fighting Championship not only survived, it's more popular than ever. The UFC - a sort of major league for what's known as "mixed martial arts," an amalgam of punching, kicking and grappling - boasts its own stars and even has a popular Spike TV reality series, "The Ultimate Fighter."

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But ultimate fighting still meets resistance.

Peter Carmel, a neurosurgeon and a trustee of the AMA's board of directors, says the fights are "about stopping as close to murder as you can get." Sen. Eileen Daily, chairwoman of the state legislature's public safety committee, wants to ban it.

None of which hampers Dana White's enthusiasm. The UFC president calls mixed martial arts "the most exciting combat sport in the world" and believes it will eclipse boxing.

Good for Dana White for not letting the first calls of opposition rain on his parade. I just hope that he knows what to say to Senator John McCain when that busybody comes back around with his second effort to ban the UFC, for good.

The day that people rise up and say "I will defend your right to say or do whatever the hell you want SO LONG AS you respect the equal rights of others" (don't harm someone else's person or property)...is the day people will take back their country from politicians who profit by playing political chess with our fortune and our lives.