they are told by government how fast they can drive their cars. they are told by government where they can and cannot smoke cigattes and they are told by government that they cannot smoke marijuana. we take off our shoes at airports for the flimsiest of reasons. a crazy, incompetent al qaeda loser wanted to blow up an airplane with something in his shoe that could not have actually blown up the airplane, even if had worked. the crazy, incompetent al qaeda loser got caught and every day since then, all of us, every american boarding an airplane has to take off our shoes, in deference, in honor of that crazy incompetent al qaeda loser and senator johnson has never complained about restricting our freedom to keep our shoes on. the freedom lovers at the nra don't complain that the "take off your shoes" rule restricts our freedom, even though it does restrict our freedom. our government has enacted and this country has accepted the "take off your shoes" rule as a