European Union Decides Water does not Hydrate

By Douglas V. Gibbs

When centralized government starts to dictate to the citizens, no matter how benign everybody thinks government can be, the tendency is for the government to become tyrannical. The elitism exhibited by the bureaucrats, who begin to believe they are superior to the people due to their position in government, gets them to the point that their control becomes an addiction that begins to teeter on absurdity. They claim they are doing whatever they are doing for the common good of the community, but what they are doing is exhibiting control in a manner that in any other setting may be considered akin to the beginnings of the road to totalitarianism.

The leaders of the European Union have reached that point of statism.

Despite long-held truths, scientific fact, and common sense, the government bureaucrats of Europe have determined that water does not hydrate. As a result, they have decided to ban drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration.

Their decision comes as a result of a three year investigation that, according to them, indicates that there is no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.

Bottled water producers, should they claim that water can prevent dehydration, could face a two-year jail sentence. The law goes into force in the UK next month.

The Department for Health disputed the wisdom of the new law. A spokesman said: “Of course water hydrates. While we support the EU in preventing false claims about products, we need to exercise common sense as far as possible."

Hence, the idiocy of central government, big government, or in a word, "liberalism."

This is not the first time these giant minds of lunacy have struck with stupid regulatory madness. Rules banning bent bananas and curved cucumbers were scrapped in 2008 after causing international ridicule. Unfortunately for them, it turns out that bananas naturally are bent, and cucumbers naturally curve.

Liberalism fails wherever it is tried.

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