State Representative Robert Bastien of Gardner (formerly the furniture capital of America, now a ghost town) has introduced a bill that would repeal the current law (one of only four in the country) that bans serf-citizens of Massachusetts from purchasing (and setting off) fireworks on the Fourth of July. For the uninitiated, that's the day many Americans traditionally resort to fireworks to celebrate the hard-won freedoms attained by our ancestors against the British using real guns and cannon that went "boom-boom".
The Bill of Representative Bastien (R., Ghost Town) is opposed by State Fire Marshall Coan (natch), plus the usual collection of safety-obsessed, scaredy-cat, lifestyle-nag leftists whose dweeb kids wear bicycle helmets and kneepads when they play dolls, and safety harnesses and cups when they go to the bathroom.
The bill to decriminalize fireworks is a step in the right direction, it's principal flaw being that it would also require the serf-citizen who wishes to display his patriotism with fireworks to cough up a yet another goddam "permitting fee" to the local city or town. (That's not progress.)
Look. Isn't the whole point that we are all sick and tired of incompetent, expensive, nanny-state government here in Massachusetts, the land where everything that is not illegal is compulsory?
The opposition to the Bill of Bastien by Poor Fire Marshall Coan (one step removed from the back of a ladder truck himself) is merely the nonsense of the public sector drone who seeks control over others in the name of "safety".
As for the rest, I challenge any citizen to take a stroll through the State House on a normal "working" day on Beacon Hill and then conclude that the "job" of state legislator shouldn't be made part-time, with a proportionate diminution in salary, perks, pensions, and benefits.
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