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Show h! Big Brother is watching the field just by buying a blaze orange - shirt. Personally, we resent the bureaucratic invasion of our privacy. And while we admit the case in point is a minor one, we believe that we lose our freedoms a little at a time not all at once. "Red" j If you felt safer with your minimum 400 inches of blaze or hunter orange, while i j you went tripping through the hills after the j I wily buck this year, you can thank "big i brother". I I It's just another instance of "your I I government protecting you from yourself", 1 ' and we're just about fed up to the gills with the big "know-it-all", bureaucratic ma- chine. j i Personally, we believe it's the biggest : i rip-off in years. First they conned us into ; "red hat days". It wasn't mandatory, so most everybody went along. After all, it seemed reasonable. Next thing we knew, the bureaucrats had promoted us into red shirts, and the ! hills and woodlands during deer season lit ! up like a Christmas tree, with the bright ( i red hats and shirts speckling the country - j! I; side. Still, everybody had the option. It I wasn't mandatory. If Joe Blow preferred khaki, blue jeans or jungle camouflage, it ! was his prerogative. ; I Not so with blaze orange. The Utah j j legislature last February made it manda- ! j tory. The clothing manufacturers had a bonanza, the sporting goods stores and !' clothing stores had a captive market and j Joe Blow had to buy blaze orange. I " We believe the law to be unconstitu- i tional. But chances are no one will contest It in court. Chances are the blaze orange will make you stand out like a sore thunb, and pos- ! : sibly keep some bumbling idiot from shoot- j ;; ing you. And if that same bumbling Idiot ; I gets himself lost the blaze orange will j make him easier for rescuers to spot. And we're sure there are those who just like to be identified with the crowd and they can j be deer hunters without ever going into |