As moonbattery tightens its stranglehold, nothing wholesome and quintessentially America will escape the attention of the authorities — not even selling Girl Scout cookies in Wyoming:

Emma McCarroll, 13, almost didn’t meet her sales goal because the code enforcement officer was an expert on the rules of where a Girl Scout in Pinedale can stand — and where her mom could park their car while selling them.

The spat between the city and the Girl Scout and her mom began when the code enforcement officer asked the mom, Erica Fairbanks McCarroll, if she had the landowner’s permission to sell from the city’s Pine Avenue spot and park a vehicle in a driveway there.

The driveway belongs to the mom’s parents.

The issue became more problematic because Pine Street — the main thoroughfare through this tiny town of 2,000-plus — is essentially controlled by the Wyoming Department of Transportation, which claims ownership of the property, and activity like selling cookies infringed on WYDOT’s right of way of the street.

Looks like Big Government just managed to create another Republican:

“Sometimes I just think that government can be unreasonable,” Emma McCarroll said. “It wasn’t reasonable to be fined $400 for selling cookies in front on my grandparent’s property.”

Theorizes her mom,

“Maybe she (the officer) has something against Girl Scouts.”

The bigger the government, the more vulnerable citizens are to the whims and prejudices of its agents.

In the future, Girl Scouts will sell condoms instead of cookies, so as to encounter no difficulties with the authorities.

On a tip from R F.