General Government Motors is recalling 18,941 Chevy Camaros for violating Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, reports Heritage’s The Foundry. Surely the issue with the cars must be one of life and death, and for which we should profusely thank our government overloads for saving us from. Right?

Does anyone believe that? Surely not anyone who has followed the Overgovernment series. No, the horrible violation for which GM had to recall almost 20,000 cars at significant expense was for airbag warning labels that might peel.

This is no small matter, evidently. If the air bag warning label detaches from the visor, the driver and front seat passenger may not be warned of the risks of air bag deployment. Or so goes the reasoning for the adhesion edict. But even when warned via visor label, a driver and front seat passenger have little choice about air bag deployment, since the potentially dangerous equipment is required by the NHTSA itself.

In other words, General Motors is required under NHTSA rules to initiate a recall of 18,941 vehicles because of a danger created by other NHTSA rules. Perhaps it is regulators who should come with a warning label.

The nanny state, ladies and gentlemen.

The LA City Council has declared the observance of “Meatless Mondays“:

The Los Angeles City Council is urging all residents to observe “meatless Mondays” from now on.

A resolution adopted on Oct. 24 reads: “Be it resolved, that the Council of the City of Los Angeles hereby declares all Mondays as ‘Meatless Mondays’ in support of comprehensive sustainability efforts as well as to further encourage residents to eat a more varied plant-based diet to protect their health and protect animals.”

Councilwoman Jan Perry, who introduced the resolution, also wants to ban new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles.

While I suppose that freedom lovers can take solace in the “symbolic” nature of the dictate, you just know it would be backed by the force of government if they thought they could get away with it. Even such a “symbolic” gesture can only come from the mind of person who loves the power of controlling the lives of their fellow citizens and, as we see, the resolution’s author indeed has designs on more than just symbolic demonstrations of nannyism, but also wants to ban new fast-food restaurants.

But perhaps there is a precedent here of which we can one day take advantage. In the distant (or not so distant) future when Jan Perry and all the other petty tyrants have encumbered our existence with so many rules and dictates, we might wish to symbolically declare a “Freedom Friday” in support of maintaining the illusion that choice and free will still exist in American society.

It’s your birthday! But don’t hold the party just yet, citizen, step into my office and fill out some paperwork first…

When Martha Boneta hosted a birthday party for a friend’s 10-year-old daughter on her Virginia farm, she didn’t expect to have the county come knocking on her door.

But come knocking it did — threatening her with nearly $5,000 in fines.

Fauquier County officials say Boneta, owner of the 70-acre Liberty Farms in Paris, Va., didn’t have the proper permit to host the party, nor to sell produce on her own land. Zoning Administrator Kimberley Johnson sent her a cease-and-desist letter in April after the party, warning her with the financial consequences if she didn’t stop her activities within 30 days.

I’m beginning to understand how Michelle Obama must have felt all those years. An America that requires permits for birthday parties is not one I’m proud of.

But perhaps even worse in its overall impact than that utterly asinine requirement is the continued and widespread disregard for basic economic liberties, a particular problem when it comes to zoning laws.

Our economic rights are essential. The right to earn a living, to engage in commerce and trade, these are things which we are required to have if we are to be able to pursue happiness. If we can’t even walk up to our neighbors and buy a bit of food grown on their own land, I don’t even know what we’re doing in this country anymore. Whatever it is, it sure as hell isn’t “secur[ing] the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

For more on the story above, enjoy (or become enraged because of) this video from Economic Freedom: