The UK isn't Alone In Stupidity

In Obamaland, they've banned most lunches brought from home.  Parents are no longer allowed to make decisions for their own children.  Children in "progressive" areas have become wards of the state, with parents as free care providers.  You don't have an option on what to feed them, where to send them to school, and even what you can ideologically teach them is limited.  

This is a perfect example of a government out of control. I say again that the agenda does not seem to be to protect us, but to make sure that we are more easily ruled.

As Bad as the UK Has Become...

I think they've gone beyond anything any comedy writer could imagine.   With a hat tip to Madogre, Britain is now wanting to ban fire extinguishers because, get this, they pose a fire hazard.  The claim is that untrained people might try to fight the fire rather than leave. There is also a concern that someone might use the wrong fire extinguisher on the wrong kind of fire.

Back in the day, the Monty Python gang made fun of bureaucratic stupidity (ministry of silly walks?), but this is something too stupid even for them. 

So now I guess, it's not just guns that pose a hazard to the great unwashed, but fire extinguishers too.  Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems more and more clear to me every day that the "progressive" ideal isn't to protect people, but to make people dependent, and incapable of acting without government approval, as a dependent people bleating for security are far easier to rule.