For those that don't know what it means:
B.O.H.I.C.A.
(bow-hee-ka)
Bend
Over
Here
It
Comes
Again
Its a term that I first heard at a workplace. It was used to describe the perception that the company screwing us over again. It's also used to describe the Government screwing the people again. And that's where this one is heading.
There is now talk about not only telling us where we can and can't smoke in public, but in our private lives as well. Now before I get a lot of yelling and screaming about "The Children... Someone please think about the Children...", I have to say that nothing has changed in the last 50+ years and nothing is any more or less dangerous than it has been all along.
They are now talking about stopping you and giving you a ticket if your smoking in your car and there are children in it. Although I am understanding of the fact that an asthma child will have a problem in a closed car, I am also thinking that a parent of an asthma child will also be aware of this and protect their child. This is just another intrusion on our personal freedoms by the Government.
What's next? You can't smoke in your own home? I guess after that they will regulate the diet you feed to your kids. I can picture it now. Your sitting down for supper with your family and
B.O.H.I.C.A., the door breaks open and the police come barreling in and haul you away because the food your serving your Children does not meet with their standards.
Lets see, what would be next? Your sitting and reading your child a book. It's a classic of course. Let's say Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. And just as you start...
B.O.H.I.C.A. ... In come the police and arrest you for reading a book that is not considered to be politically correct! Your polluting your children's minds with historical facts. You terrible parent you!
Does this sound extreme? You bet! Is it potentially possible? YES! Because that's the way things are going.
They just passed a law that requires anyone under the age of 18 to wear a helmet when skating on any indoor public ice rink. This means that 16 and 17 yr olds, that have been skating for most of their lives, at least here in the Great White North, are being treated like little children that have trouble keeping their balance. All this has done is driven the older kids off the ice and outside to find other things to do. And what percentage of them will get into trouble? You figure it out.
What's next? Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times? Full body armor in case they fall down so they don't get hurt? Mandatory 24 hour supervision by a trained professional to ensure that the children never see or do anything that may in some way, somewhere in the present or future , cause them any harm or emotional trauma? Or maybe the Government will just seize all children and raise them themselves, thus ensuring a society of robots all thinking the same way and doing the same thing.
George Orwell's 1984 was a work of fiction. Or was it? Maybe it was just a prediction of the way things would end up, and he was just off by a couple of years?
And after they have PROTECTED the children, I guess we adults are next. So much for our liberties and rights. The Government has decided that they are not good for us. Free will and liberties are hazardous to our health I guess. Or are they just hazardous to the Governments ability to interfere in our lives?
I'll let the Baby Duck will have the last word on this one...
