Before you start to think this is a column about science, it isn’t. Well, at least not in the real sense because politics for the most part doesn’t make any sense unless one is on the winning or losing end of a particular political movement. I must admit that I am a science junky and when I see or hear something about a scientific discovery, I am all eyes and ears in order to absorb whatever I can.

This past weekend I just happened to click on Google news and there was an article that antimatter had been captured for 17 minutes by scientists at CERN. My curiosity took over because I wondered what or where CERN was. It turns out that it started out as the European Organization for Nuclear Research in the 1950s and then became the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.

What I find scary is antimatter decimates matter so why would someone want to create it in the first place. When one looks at government, and it doesn’t matter where one looks, there is positive proof that antimatter exists in the vacuums of various state legislatures and at the Capital in Washington, D.C. The House of Representatives is controlled by the Republicans and the Senate is controlled by the Democrats and the White House is totally out of control.

The House is going to do the opposite of what the Senate does and then the White House sprinkles antimatter on both of them. We also have bureaucrats that are constantly telling us that we are out of the recession and that the economy has vastly improved. No matter what they say all last week’s financial figures prove the exact opposite is true so I have to wonder what’s the matter with those bureaucrats. Did they get touched by antimatter?

Then there’s that giant black hole in Maine called Augusta, where money disappears no matter what they do. Maybe they are in a time warp because the Legislature unanimously passed a bill on health insurance, the governor vetoed it and the Legislature let it die without trying to overturn the governor’s veto. They all agreed that the matter would surface next year so I guess we don’t matter. And since matter is dissolved by antimatter, when the governor sprayed antimatter on the mural in the Department of Labor building, some homegrown terrorist did the same to the sign on the Turnpike that stated Maine is open for business. I guess it doesn’t matter what the business is because if Maine is to keep up with its motto of being the way life should be, maybe some antimatter should be scattered around Augusta.

What I am sure about is that billions of dollars have been used to research antimatter and why should antimatter matter because no matter what we think, it won’t matter to those who spend the money on what matters to them. We have politicians who vote to spend trillions of dollars and it doesn’t matter whether they are trying to bring back an ancient form of transportation or pollute Maine’s hilltops with wind turbines. Come to think of it, maybe Ross Perot was right when he said there was a giant sucking sound coming out of Washington, D.C. Antimatter might improve the government’s ability to suck even more money from us no matter what we think about it. I hope the scientists at CERN aren’t government employees.

Lane Hiltunen, of Windham, thinks government is freedom’s antimatter.