This is Tuesday’s Open Post. Link to this post and track back. More below the profiling proposal…
A recent comment by Jerry Pournelle, in excerpt:
“We would, apparently, give up air travel entirely than to treat young males of Middle Eastern origin traveling alone or with other males differently from the way we treat 80 year old grandmothers traveling with their children and grandchildren. We all know the dangers, don’t we? Old ladies often blow themselves up with their children and grand children. So do retired generals carrying the Medal of Honor, can’t treat them differently from — well, you get the idea. Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for the West as it commits suicide.”
Profiling works. Ask the safest airline in the world, El Al.
But our political masters see it otherwise.
*sigh*
“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for the West as it commits suicide.” (James Burnham)
And kid thyself not: the modern American “conservatism” (of our political masters) is even more fitting to recieve Dabney’s condemnation than the “conservatism” of the 19th Century was:
“American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.” – R. L. Dabney
Thousands Standing Around: an experiment in full employment for thugs and goons from the left end of the Bell Curve designed to see just how much freedom the sheeple will surrender for percieved safety. No genuine improvement in security. All sizzle, little (if any) steak. What better example of our political masters’ Prime Directive: perception is everything, substance nothing, in managing the sheeple.”
And that brings up the need for profiling. The American electorate needs to start profiling political candidates and eliminating the fluff–those who are actively inimical to protecting the liberties of the American people or simply too much in love with their own image and hungry for power–who are the most serious enemies of the Republic, before they can do more harm…
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We could start flying in the nude. That would solve the smuggling issue.
And the smug issue – doubt anyone will look smug naked. lol, lgp
“And that brings up the need for profiling. The American electorate needs to start profiling political candidates and eliminating the fluff?those who are actively inimical to protecting the liberties of the American people or simply too much in love with their own image and hungry for power?who are the most serious enemies of the Republic, before they can do more harm?”
Interestingly, with all this talk about the need for electronic eavesdropping on citizens, I was wondering if the NSA would do a little eavesdropping FOR the citizens on elected officials.
I sure would have liked to have known what was going on when Cheney took all those energy mogols behind closed doors to write public policy and law.
“I was wondering if the NSA would do a little eavesdropping FOR the citizens on elected officials.”
Unecessary. Attribute ALL actions and statements by our political masters to either malice or stupidity (cupidity is a given, otherwise they’d not WANT the power of public office), and you’ll pretty well KNOW what goes on behind closed doors… in both parties.
Sadly, the fake liberals populating the Democratic Party leadership now are actually easier to “eavesdrop” on in this regard: just take it as a given that everything that goes on behind closed doors is based on personal greed and malice toward all the values that made this country “a shining light, a city on a hill” and you’d be bang on, for the most part. The republican leadership is a little more difficult to “eavesdrop” on with this method for a couple of readons:
1.) There are still a few (very, very few) barely honorable politicians in that party’s leadership, people who recall the values they _say_ they stand for and feel just a tad guilty for the harm they do the Constitution day in and day out (unlike the Dem leadership who revel in the deconstruction and destruction of everything the Framers wrought… or are too stupid to have any idea that their actions are tearing the last shreds of the Framers’ work).
2.) It is called “The Stupid Party” by long time republican conservatives (as opposed to the current party leadership which can only be fairly characterized as “Democratic Party faux liberal lite”) for a reason…
There is almost no limit to the destructive “creativity” of stupid people.
I am a firm believer in a two-party system. I only wish the American electorate had two OTHER parties as legitimate choices…
*sigh*
Short-sighted, attempting to “win” the CNN debate on issues that either do not matter or are too important for sound-bite “debating” SIMPLY and SOLELY to puff up their image: todays politicians have no vision, no courage, no morality.
*feh*
A pox on both their houses.