3 Ring Binder: The Warrior Pose

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

The Warrior Pose

Once, Bendy Wendy had a yoga school.

She taught new practitioners, was no fool,

‘Til she ran an ad,

Then she was had,

By bureaucrats who thought she was merely a tool.

But Bendy Wendy is fighting back.

6 comments:

Deb said...: Hurray again for the Institute for Justice!; December 2, 2009 9:36 AM
Beth said...: Wow. Will it never end? Where is the outrage?; December 2, 2009 10:19 AM
C. August said...: "Yoga is the study of the self through direct experience," Suzanne Leitner-Wise, a plaintiff ... said outside federal court in Alexandria, where the lawsuit was filed. "You simply can't put regulations on that. It's just dumb."

While she's right that regulating this is dumb, she has the wrong reasons. Putting words in her mouth, the fact that yoga is "spiritual" and "an ancient Eastern mystical practice" is irrelevant.

Any such licensing by a government body to restrict who is a "valid" business owner or practitioner of some art is not only dumb, it's a violation of individual rights.

The only people who should be able to decide whether to go into a particular business are the owners themselves. And the only people to decide if the business is valid are the customers who can freely choose to patronize it or not.; December 2, 2009 10:56 AM
Lynne said...: Namaste to that, brother.; December 2, 2009 12:32 PM
Deb said...: Lynn, you slay me.; December 2, 2009 12:36 PM
Lynne said...: Some of the skills I've been trying to acquire to combat the dragons of injustice must have slipped out.; December 2, 2009 3:34 PM

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