Amara Graps wrote:
>
> From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> [nitpicking details snipped]
>
> Arghhhh! Robert: does it really seem to you that this security stuff
> is appropriate ?? From my view, it's blown way out of proportion. All
> of that energy and attention and money is only serving a purpose to
> make people more 'security aware', i.e. watching their neighbor
> more closely, their co-worker more closely. making people more afraid,
> "plugging up holes" whereever there is a hole to plug up, making
> walls and boundaries - the metaphorical and the physical - thicker
> and taller between people. And my goodness, using this huge ugly
> beaucracy called the U.S. government to step in and 'help'!
>
> How in the world is this 'security' frenzy going to help humans on this
> planet be better (live longer, healthier, smarter, stronger, etc.) ?
It will help by aiding in the repair the breach of trust created by the
attacks. The integrity of our open society has been riddled with holes
by several decades of pro-foreigner legislation that has steadily
dismantled the regulatory membrane that has protected our society from
penetration by concious and unconcious agents of fascism, looterism, and
repression. The barbarians are within the gates.
The sort of libertarian society we would all like to live in is all fine
and dandy in principle, but such a society can only exist when the only
people permitted to enter that society are those who share a common
belief in the principles and institutions of that society (that is how
the 'trust' is created). Migration and free transit by anyone within
that society is a given, but allowing such a society to be penetrated
from without by anti-liberty forces will guarrantee its failure.
It is unfortunate that we need to clamp down harder right now than would
otherwise be necessary, but its like a patient that is riddled with
cancer after a lifetime of irresponsible ingestion of toxic carcinogenic
agents: only drastic application of toxic chemotherapy and radiation
will cure the patient. Going soft on the body just because it hurts for
a little while only guarantees death.
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