[PAA-Discuss] Editorial

[Rick _lux]

Subject: Editorial
From: "Aaron Bolinger" <aaron at nvcca.net>
Date: Sun, November 21, 2010 7:40 pm
To: <CCL at ChristianLifeandLiberty.net>





 

Put
 your name on it, and send it to a newspaper somewhere.  This darkness 
needs a flashlight on it.  I wrote it, but could care less about 
credit.  Plagiarism is permitted and hereby encouraged J 


Liberty or Tyranny:  What have we here? (790 words)                                                                  
 

         
 It is obvious how terrified folks in government have become of the 
people.  Go to a courthouse today even to pick up a tax plat of your own
 property.  X-ray scanners stand guard for all the sheep to herd through
 like the gates of a livestock auction.  Don’t let your tie clip set of 
its bells, because when that happens the second level of security kicks 
in.  Real people run wands over your sensitive areas to make sure 
NOTHING comes in a building to threaten anyone who works there.

Go to the state capitol.  Same thing. 


         
 Anywhere public servants gather, security is on high alert.  From video
 cameras & multiple TV displays of every drive way, parking lot, 
walking lanes, and hall ways to even spy satellites beaming images up 
for assorted acronomical agencies of government (CIA, NSA, DHS, etc.) to
 view the sheep here on earth.  This has become worse than even Orwell 
imagined.


          Only someone who is really hiding something, or is completely paranoid, needs that much security!  So which is it?


          John Basil
 Barnhill is quoted from 1914 as saying, “Where the people fear the 
government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you 
have liberty.”  Well, either we have a phenomenal level of liberty 
around today, or our government is paranoid to the point of psychosis.
         
 It would seem that in a TRULY free society, the public would never 
tolerate compulsory exposure to radiation (x-ray machines), and the 
privacy invasions brought out by this police state of affairs.  Rifling 
through our brief cases, emptying out pockets, and even subjecting 
people to more detailed searches when they deem it “prudent” is a 
colossal burden both on the people subjected to it, and the taxpayers 
who are footing the bill for all this high-tech electronic gadgetry 
& the salaries of these assorted police and security units. 


         
 As for the radiation levels – are these “guards” certified on 
x-radiation equipment the way a radiologist would be at a hospital?  How
 many times can a person “safely” pass through these machines per year? 
 Do they keep count, and notify you when your number starts climbing 
into a danger zone?  Where can we get those little clip-on indicators 
(like they have at power plants) to monitor the level of exposure?  How 
dangerous are these devices to computers and other electronics that are 
being perpetually bombarded?


   
       We won’t dig too deep into the constitutional protections against
 “unreasonable” search & seizure.  But the only times the word 
“security” is used in the Constitution; it talks of our security FROM 
government!  So what is the reason for this harassment?  Did someone 
tell someone else that a person matching MY description had a weapon and
 was coming to this particular building?  Unless there is a REASON 
(supported by an affidavit & a warrant), American government is 
supposed to STAY OUT OF MY STUFF!  Now that was true “security.”  


         
 And for what do we endure this security breech?  When was the last time
 a bomb was found coming into a courthouse in a briefcase through the 
front door?  At any statehouses or city council chambers?  If you count 
the number of “police” officers involved in such totally paranoid 
activities on behalf of other public servants, you can only shake your 
head in sheer amazement.  This amounts to off-the-charts spending for 
absolutely nothing in return. 


         
 The police state has turned our American principles on their head.  
Instead of “innocent until proven guilty,” we now inconvenience probably
 100,000 totally harmless people for the one forgetful soul who, being a
 farmer, simply forgot to leave his job-required Barlow pocket knife at 
home or in the car before coming to the state capitol to protest 
federally mandated RFID tracking- chip insertion into his chickens. 


          Only one of two things can be true. 


         
 Either we have so much money to waste in this nation that this seemed 
like a good way to put some people on the payroll, and to further 
bankroll select security gadget manufacturers; OR, these public servants
 are so terrified of their performance in office that armed guards and 
x-ray machines are the only thing making it safe for them to be an 
elected official.


          Try as I might, I just cannot come up with any other answers.  Inquiring minds want to know – which is it? 
         
 And besides, going to work for the government should be a little 
un-nerving to those doing it.  Maybe if they were stealing a little less
 from us to pay for such devices, they’d have less reason to fear us so 
badly.  It’s time to get rid of about 95% of the police state.  Public 
buildings are a great place to start cutting the budget.










 		 	   		  
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