Sniveling Little Wimps 2
by ChrisDecember 21st, 2005 2:24 pm
I just wanted to expand a little on yesterday’s post. It’s not entirely unlikely that at some point in the future, some asshole is going to strap explosives around his waist and blow up a bus in some city somewhere in America. It’s doubtful that it’s all that hard to pull off if the individual in question is hell bent on doing it. It’s even more doubtful that there is a damn thing we can do about it. Shit happens. Curtailing our civil liberties in the extreme, allowing full governmental oversight over every aspect of our lives might make the hypothetical bombing just a little harder, but certainly not impossible.
We hear lots of talk about surrender and cowardice coming out of certain circles, generally aimed in the direction of liberals. But who is really scared here? Who is running away from the founding principals of this nation in order to gain just a little comfort? Senator Cornyn provided a perfect example of what I’m talking about. He wondered out loud what good civil liberties are when you are dead. None of course, but I’d rather die with them than without. One or the other is bound to happen. By advocating the abandonment of our civil liberties, aren’t the defenders of unchecked domestic spying surrendering America? It strikes me that they advocate giving up on the idea of America and trying something less free and less enlightened because they are scared - Scared of some asshole, somewhere, who wants to blow up a bus and probably will, no matter what rights we give up.
December 22nd, 2005 at 6:33 am
It’s a “sky is falling” mentality. It’s always the folks in Bitty Town, USA that are willing to give up their rights because the terr’ists are comin’ after ‘em.
Good blog BTW.