If you want to see the logical conclusion of the Nanny State process, just come to France for a while

Nanny State. How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turning America into a Nation of Children. The preening, screaming EuroEunuch-friendly Breck girl seems to be the latest outgrowth of this negative trend. "They will never silence me!", he blusters. He sounds more like a Frenchman every single day -- risk-free resistance in the face of a non-existant threat.