Devious Journal Entry

You begin to get a little strange after working twenty six hours out of the last forty eight on three hours sleep... but thats ok...
In the past governments have restricted the freedom of their 'common' citizens by restricting travel...by tying the peasants to the land and under the thumb of their lords, so to speak.
I'm an American,the child of a land know for its wide open spaces and that cowboy spirit of get up and go somewhere else if where you're at doesn't suit you. I grew up in a time of muscle cars, cheap gas and long Sunday afternoon drives in the country. Our families spread out across three thousand miles of the Continental USA, up through Canada to Alaska and across the Pacific to Hawaii leaving those small hometowns  and city neighborhoods behind because that's what we did...travel. In a counrty built on pressing westward because our forefathers bred into us the wanderlust of a pioneer spirit, we shook off our roots and were ready to move, to go, to relocate because we were free to do just that. No jobs where you were?..you left, went on to greener pastures...
when I first started driving gas was twenty nine cents a gallon. I could fill up my tank with a five dollar bill and have change for lunch. Now it's a lot more expensive to travel. Gas prices are heading up...and the poor are heading nowhere because they can't afford to fill up their tanks. The peasants are being once again tied to the land.
Works out great for a bloated, top heavy government that doesn't want to have to deal with having to slide in new restrictions on its citizen's freedoms under a ton of pork. They let Oil do it instead.
Restrict mobility, curtail freedom.
Just a thought....