I had the fun pleasure of getting my TN fishing license today, plus registering my boat and motor, buying flares, first aid kit and some other items.
I also got a copy of the boating and fishing rules and regs for the state, plus an attached pamplet with some of the federal boating rules in them.
Now I was just thinking, if George Washington, or Patrick Henry, was to come to visit today, and we explained to them, that no, they could not just walk down to the stream and go fishing. They first had to know what type of fish they were going to catch, to see if any special fish stamps were needed, then they had to get a permit from the government to fish, Next if they were going to use a boat, it had to have a license for it.
Would they beleive us, that the rules to fish and boat take up more space than the founding documents of our entire nation did.
Would they think it was all worth it, or would they throw all the work they had done out the window, and write up a much more speicific document granting and not granting the rights the way they intended.
Somehow I always beleived, that good ole George would have beleived, we could always go down and fish, without the government being able to control it. |
