What’s with the liberal fascination with infringing on individual liberties? 

Tulane political science professor Melissa Harris-Perry believes, along with her fanbase, that your children don’t belong to you.

They belong to everybody.

Harris-Perry voices her liberal opinions on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” show on the weekends.

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents — or kids belong to their families — and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments,” Harris-Perry said in an MSNBC advertisement.  

Harris-Perry’s statement is nothing more than a blunt way of saying what President Barack Obama did in his State of the Union address on Feb. 12.

This concept is the basis for Obama’s early childhood education plan, sometimes referred to as “preschool for all.” 

I see discrepancies in liberal theory. In the womb, the fetus is presumptuously called a “part” of the woman, but once brought into the world, he or she is no longer to be under the guidance and jurisdiction of the parents,                   but of the state.

Little Johnny better get ready, because he’s going to be getting a new set of parents — each called “State” — by age 4. 

Many are probably thrilled to see an opportunity to hand over their parental responsibilities and let the state feed, educate and medicate them and their children. 

Not an infringement of rights, you say? Harris-Perry even         agrees with me.

“This is about whether we as a society, expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government, have a right to impinge on individual freedoms in order to advance a common good. And that is exactly the fight that we have been having for a couple hundred years,” she said.

In Louisiana, the care, guidance and control of children is laid out in the Children’s Code passed in 1991.

“The people of Louisiana        recognize the family as the most fundamental unit of human society; that preserving families is essential to a free society; that the relationship between parent and child is pre-eminent in establishing and maintaining the well-being of the child; that parents have the responsibility for providing the basic necessities of life as well as love and affection to their children,” the preamble states.

The concept of the government rearing children is laughable. I wonder what an instructional lesson on budgeting would look like.

It just goes back to some people being in favor of things such as separation of church and state. I happen to be in favor of separation of child and state. 

Don’t give the “Harris-Perrys” of the world your children.

Landon Mills is a 21-year-old international studies senior from Sunshine, La.