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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