“Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.”
I’ve been saying that for three years. It is simply not the responsibility of the government to protect us in every circumstance. There will be events that are not foreseen, and there will be times when we must face the truth that the world we live in isn’t always pretty and there may be difficult choices for us to make regarding those truths. No matter how hard they try to worm their way into every facet of our lives, there will be times when the government isn’t around to offer their “help”.
The varied departments of the government don’t do one thing to make me feel secure, much less offer me any actual security. When someone is committed to their cause, it doesn’t matter if they are carrying a knife, a box opener, a corkscrew or a pointy nail file. Serious damage can be done with something as mundane as a ring of keys or a ball-point pen, yet they don’t (yet) prevent you from carrying these things on board with you. It’s simply ridiculous to think that they can throw more and more legislation at the problem, remove more and more liberties in the process, and think that it will all just go away.
The quote? That was Osama bin Laden, though I suspect that he may have meant it a little differently than I do.