Necks Out, Chins Up

Instilling fear in the populace is a fine tool for control. The unspoken subtext is, “Let us do whatever we want to the Constitution, let us start wars wherever it suits us, let us have your kids to send into the meat grinder—because we’re protecting you from Big Bad Wolves.”

Actually, real protections are about as common as real assistance to post-Katrina New Orleans. American undercover teams carrying weapons have tested security at airport after airport, including one used by the actual highjackers—the teams have never been detected, much less stopped. Similar teams have gotten into nuclear power plants. Emergency services still can’t cross-communicate on their networks, as the 9/11 Commission insisted they must. And every hour containers pile up in our ports, unexamined, containing who knows what.

Instead of working seriously on these things that could really help, we get the wanding of grammaw.

I see malfeasance in such security farces while invisible, necessary actions go undone. I see malfeasance in the insult to our national dignity of so much pandering to primitive, monster-in-the-closet fear.

Hey. This is the Home of the Brave. Good leaders would be reminding us of that, not treating us like frightened children. Instead, too many of our so-called leaders—and I mean that across party lines–are aligning with the goal of the terrorists—to scare Americans spitless.

QED: fear-mongering is aiding and abetting the enemy.

Here’s one citizen who won’t play. I’m not scared and you shouldn’t be either. We can stick our necks out and our chins up. We’re tough, strong people, and we’re not afraid.

But angry? Oh yeah. Be angry. Be very angry.

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