Security
After 9/11 we the people screamed for more security, new departments were formed, airport security, hunt for terrorists, Afganistan, Iraq and now what people see as an irrosion of the constitution.
For one thing as events in Canada suggest, we can never totally stop threats to us no matter what we lose in the process. All one need to do is look at murder rates in the US and see that, and the amount of illegal drugs that enter our country inspite of our best efforts.
The point is, when we squeal loud enough our government will react, if we want security they have to keep going to the next level of doing things to give us what we want, including things that appear to whittle away at our rights. We can't have it both ways folks, if we want more security we will have to keep paying. The question is how much do we want to pay?
We have politicians, including the prez who listen, then react. What is it we want and expect them to do?
In my opinion we face just as much of a threat from our own citizens as we do from outside, again as the Canadian and Mcveigh events show us. Our kids face threats from other students as school shootings show us, so what can we do? We keep screaming the government has to do this and that, and when they do something it violates our rights.
We as in "We The People" have to think about what we want and how want to get it before we open our mouths.
National threats, or percieved threats are nothing new, first it was the Japanese, then the commies, then drug lords, then al-qaida and on and on. The response was McCarthyism, J. Edgar, Bush and lots we don't know about.
Now there is more to the equasion, the young people of the country. It really has been my experience, that young people don't know our own history, nor whats going on in the world. I have 5 kids of my own, and I have always tried to instill something about the past and future in them. But I have seen alot more that I have wondered where the hell they came from, and what shell they have been living in. I really have to wonder about what is taught in schools. From what I see, the next generation will be led around like sheep. They are the ones that will live with what we leave them, we also have to think about that.
Well enough for now.
For one thing as events in Canada suggest, we can never totally stop threats to us no matter what we lose in the process. All one need to do is look at murder rates in the US and see that, and the amount of illegal drugs that enter our country inspite of our best efforts.
The point is, when we squeal loud enough our government will react, if we want security they have to keep going to the next level of doing things to give us what we want, including things that appear to whittle away at our rights. We can't have it both ways folks, if we want more security we will have to keep paying. The question is how much do we want to pay?
We have politicians, including the prez who listen, then react. What is it we want and expect them to do?
In my opinion we face just as much of a threat from our own citizens as we do from outside, again as the Canadian and Mcveigh events show us. Our kids face threats from other students as school shootings show us, so what can we do? We keep screaming the government has to do this and that, and when they do something it violates our rights.
We as in "We The People" have to think about what we want and how want to get it before we open our mouths.
National threats, or percieved threats are nothing new, first it was the Japanese, then the commies, then drug lords, then al-qaida and on and on. The response was McCarthyism, J. Edgar, Bush and lots we don't know about.
Now there is more to the equasion, the young people of the country. It really has been my experience, that young people don't know our own history, nor whats going on in the world. I have 5 kids of my own, and I have always tried to instill something about the past and future in them. But I have seen alot more that I have wondered where the hell they came from, and what shell they have been living in. I really have to wonder about what is taught in schools. From what I see, the next generation will be led around like sheep. They are the ones that will live with what we leave them, we also have to think about that.
Well enough for now.
posted by Reflections at 6:31 AM
1 Comments:
People who will sacrifice personal freedom for security deserve neither.
Quote, (thereabouts) by Ben Franklin
The current administration is using the perceived threat to our Nation as a wedge to divide the citizens. There will always be a threat to anything and anybody. Humans have been fighting for all time. We don't have to ignore it, but we also don't have to react with craziness that puts money in Haliburton's pocket either.
It took 5 years after 9/11 to put Moussaowi behind bars. NEXT year, you'll need a passport to go to and from Canada. NOW, they want to stem the tide of immigrants coming to work in the US from Latin America.
It's always after the fact. It's a crock of lies. The people who are being targeted are the people who perpetrate evil as in the current administration.
No, we shouldn't ignore the 9/11 attacks, but to start a war in Iraq and tell people it's for our National security is pure bullshit. And as the facts get out, we are finding that there was evidence ignored by the intelligence arms of this country, the FBI and CIA, that foretold of activity towards an attack here.
I won't bury my head in the sand and let my rights be eroded under the disguise of security. Not everyone who reads about Al Quida is a terrorist. As not every Muslim is a terrorist.
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