I was reading my local news paper this morning and came across an article about a family who owns documents dating back to the civil war. The documents were correspondence between governors and generals during the civil war and came to this family from a family member who had served in the civil war. This was many years ago but the South Carolina State Archives said its state property and had a judge stop an auction, stating that it would be to hard to recover all the documents if they were sold off piece by piece. The documents have been authinticated and appraised at 2.4 million dollars. I think the state had no write to stop the sale of these documents. It is the personal property of the family who owned the documents and they should be able to do what they want with them. This is yet another case of the government violating the rights of its citizens. The state should go to the auction and bid just as anyone else would do. You may say its for the good of all citizens that the state archives have the documents but not when it comes at the expense of ONE persons right to do what they please with what is theirs.
After reading this, I turn to the ed/op page and there is a lady expressing her opinion, which she has a right to do, about pets. "All cats and dogs should be registered with the state". How big are "we the people" willing to let our government get?