evidence: It seems almost weekly that we hear about more intrusion by federal government agencies, such as the NSA, into the lives of citizens who are supposed to be free. When the government secretly invades the privacy of law-abiding citizens, attempts to intimidate the assembling of organizations like OCPA and ALEC, and uses the IRS to target those who don’t agree with President Barack Obama, reflection upon the words of the founding fathers is imperative. [...] Treacherously, lawmakers and bureaucrats in Washington and Oklahoma have strayed from Jefferson’s fundamental approach to government. We have too much government, too much regulation, and too many taxes. [...] The state should not place blanket trust in the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics, whose positions may also be influenced by their own agenda (see their praise and advocacy for Obamacare, their positions on certain vaccines for all children—as if all children were sexually active—and other controversial policies).This and other experiences remind me of the words of another founding father, George Washington, "Government is not reason, nor eloquence.