By Andy B. Hammond, 10 months and 10 days ago

Government Thermostat Control

California is looking to pass a law allowing the state to regulate and control private citizen's thermostats through radio control. Of course it will only be applicable in emergencies. Once the state is allowed in, what's going to stop them from declaring a permanent state of emergency based on the «Global Warming Crisis»?

What's next, a camera in my refrigerator and pantry keeping tabs on what I'm eating so I don't put any additional strain on our health care system? Once we allow something like control over our thermostats in our private property, it isn't that far a reach for the government to expand its control over other aspects of our lives, for the good of all, of course.

6 comments

Gravatar #1. MTSentinel
10 months and 10 days ago

That is scary.

Gravatar #2. EP Banks
10 months and 10 days ago

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of ways for an individual to create power. The power can then be converted into as much heating or cooling as one desires.

The socialist state be damned. They can only impose their insane totalitarian schemes on the urban masses, who are packed together in apartments and condominiums that are easy to control and police. But even in such circumstances people can thwart the will of the all-powerful state by installing jammers and bogus signal transmitters.

The important thing to observe in this attempt at state-controlled temperatures and energy use is that the socialists do not want the free market to ration energy by price. The state wants to do the artificial rationing to ensure that everyone suffers equally, but ultimately everyone will suffer way more than they should.

The fact that this crackbrained idea surfaced first in California is no surprise, because this is a state run by a bunch of levelers who have racked up a $14 billion deficit with their socialist programs and have no idea how to keep the lights on in people's houses because they f**ked up the energy market so badly.

Gravatar #3. Anonymous in Bozeman
10 months and 9 days ago

It's hard to talk people into paying for their own enslavement. Instead the people are talked into paying for things like preserving wildlife and fisheries or «fragile» coastlines or paying for a Mexican kid with two heads and six arms who needs an operation. That's what California socialism is all about.

Now they can't pay for it all and can't enforce the gazillion regulations they've imposed on themselves. The whole crazy structure is wobbling. Read the L.A. Times article «Pain of proposed state budget cuts is widely spread: Ability to protect renters, workers, children and wildlife would be impeded, agency reports show.» And these liberal fascists are going to police people's thermostat settings?

What a bad joke California turned out to be.

Gravatar #4. EP Banks
10 months and 5 days ago

From the latest news, it looks like that liberal fascist scheme collapsed. Too bad. I sort of wanted the liberal fascists in California to enact the thermostat law, which would have thrown their socialist experiment into more chaos and pushed the state another step closer to insolvency. Then everybody could plainly see what happens when the wrong people gain control of government.

Gravatar #5. Amy Green
10 months and 5 days ago

I think the worst part of the law was the rectal thermometers with the little transmitters. This was somebody's idea to monitor the body temperatures of older people who are very susceptible to hypothermia.

Gravatar #6. Marla
6 months and 6 days ago

Fresno's escalating corruption while covering up of ID theft, disappearances and suspected homicide as the city sewer/water/power infrastructures are being illegally altered is bad enough. But to add remote control to our thermostats as the accompanying «gassing through vents» scenario continues to take place seems like planning of a mass suicide / genocide. One of the people involved is the father of a local FBI agent - he repeatedly said that a disaster was coming, which would leave everyone dead. Even though it would be more costly, it may be time to go back to window air conditioning and space heaters. Click below:

Thermostat Control in CA

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