And at some point it will snap and lead to an upheaval unprecedented in over 200 years..

The latest attempts of the US Gubment to stretch their reach far beyond it’s bounds has now reached to Japanese TV.. It seems that the ATF is upset about a beer commercial.. bostonherald.com.. Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is shown taking a drink of what appears to be a tastey beer after throwing a pitch in uniform.. Apparently the actof a sports personality converts skulls of mush into raving alchoholics at the meer sight of such an action.. And the ATF must protect us..

I am actually quite conservative in my beliefs.. But there has to be a line drawn at some point.. And the Feds trying to Japanese people what they can see on TV seems to be a little out of their reach to me.. So what to do?? I don’t know, but I don’t see any currently electable people capable of making things better.. No Republicans, no Democrats.. Each party is simply the other side of the power trip coin.. Each more interested in staying power than actually accomplishing anything useful to the world as a whole.

Looks like it’s time to get involved making phone calls and writing letters again.. Why not start here with the ATF email address.. eps@atf.gov.. Or you can write you US Representative here at http://www.house.gov/writerep/ or your sentator here http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Feel free to copy and paste this message to your own reps..

I’m writing to express my concern that agencies of the US government seem to have lost their focus on exactly what their roles are. Specifically I am referring the ATF spending resources looking in to whether they can apply US law to Japanese television.

Apparently they are concerned that a Japanese man, who happens to play baseball here in the summer, dared to commit the grievous act of actually drinking a beer in a television commercial. I am stunned that with all of the things the ATF is responsible for, with all of the resources at their disposal to protect the US and enforce our laws, they have the time to watch Japanese TV looking for more crime to chase after.

It seems to me that what the Japanese do with their television programs has little effect on the citizens of the United States, and that declaring “Matsuzaka’s Asahi ad may merit punitive action” simply leads to yet another black hole of both resources and international opinion towards the US.

While I am sure that you have little direct control of the day to day operations of the ATF, I feel that it is important that the members of the US congress hear the voices of their constituents on issues that affect us both nationally and internationally. And if my opinions can help you find a voice to bring this issue further light, and hopefully convince the ATF to spend more of their time worrying about things at home, then perhaps something good can come of this.

Thank you for you time.

Oh yeah, here is the scarey commercial that will lead us all to damnation..