Nanny state political correctness fine of $150k threatens business of religious baker.

You never know what events will occur around the time of the great turning.  These events don't cause the turning; the turning is already happening.  But people like to associate landmark events with the pendulum swings because, of course, correlation always implies causality in the eyes of the herd (whether or not is is in fact true...).

Bad things happen to people at every political extreme.  Most times you just don't hear about them.  How many people really know just how corrupt and evil the local police forces of the USA have become?  Very few.  In their minds, whoever gets beaten or killed must have deserved it somehow.  And then it happens to their wife, their child, their brother, their friend or even a helpless stranger.  At some point they wake up and realize it has become a structural problem with the police state; it becomes their preferred mode of operation.

Today's bad thing is not physical violence but bureaucratic terrorism against a small business owner.  Basically, a baker with religious convictions decided not to serve a gay couple in their request for her company to bake them a wedding cake.  The gays complained to the nanny state and the nanny state has now slapped the baker with a massive, bankruptcy-threatening fine of $150k for their lack of state-defined political correctness.  I don't know about you but if someone can force you to work for them against your will then that is a form of slavery.  Small business owners must have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.  Of course the woman did mishandle this. She should have told them she would do the cake but that it would be $38,473.67.  Then she could have sub-contracted the cake out to someone else for $8k, made a $30k donation to her church on behalf of the gays, and then taken a weekend getaway for $473.67 in order to compensate her for being forced to do business with people whose ideals she is in opposition to.

How is her refusal of service any different than "no shoes, no shirt, no service"?  Why are gays a protected class whereas bums get what they deserve?  Is boycotting a business for religious reasons also against the law or will people be fined by the government for not spending money where the government says they must?  Where does the insanity end?  This is bureaucratic violence against a good, God-fearing citizen.  And yes, it is a traumatic, psychologically damaging, financially catastrophic state action.  While such actions don't impress me much, people do kill themselves or go on rampages over less. 

It will be interesting to see if and how the herd comes to the assistance of this woman and her business.  It would be one thing to fund raise the $150k fine but that would only encourage the con men to do more of the same and it will never end.  A better solution would be to assemble an army of lawyers and sue the living shit out of anything and anyone that moves from the organization that created this ruling.  Attack the individuals, not the organization.  Make it personal so that nobody gets to hide behind a government shield. 

If that doesn't work then you fall back to the militia option.  After all, that's what the US government would do.  What's good for the goose and all that rot...  The saying that "War is diplomacy by other means" has been around for a long time and it is true.  Might makes right, everything else is just talk.  Whether it is legal might or the might of physical force, these are the only things that ultimately matter to the herd.