Freedom. Who needs it?
Freedom. Who needs it?
Obviously not most people in the western world. They keep demanding less freedom, and they support the punishment of freedom, and taking freedom away.
Why?
Because they feel safer if there’s less freedom. The media and the governments hype up fears about terrorism and other criminal activities, and encourage people to believe that freedom comes at the price of… well, freedom.
It blows my mind that people can so naively believe that they will be free when they have no freedom. But there’s one serious flaw in their desires to limit freedom.
The only people it affects are law-abiding citizens. Terrorists and criminals operate outside the law. They always have, and they always will. So how will imposing greater restrictions on the general populace help prevent criminals from doing what they do?
Shoot ‘em in the head
Police chiefs around the world have been advised to broaden their policies and to shoot suspected terrorists in the head. The definition of suspected terrorists is: wearing a heavy coat in warm weather, carrying a backpack with protrusions or visible wires, nervousness, excessive sweating or an unwillingness to make eye contact.
According to the newspaper, the new guidelines also say the threat does not have to be "imminent" – as in traditional police training – an officer just needs to have a "reasonable basis" for believing a suspect can detonate a bomb."
Do you know what this means? It means that where suspicious characters were once questioned, detained, arrested, interrogated, etc, now the aim of the game is simply to shoot them in the head.
Of retribution
I once had a friend who I related to really, really well. Then she tired of me and didn't want anything to do with me, but interestingly enough she still read my journal. I was angry for a while, but was pleased she was still interested in what was happening in my life. However, my last entry about blogs and bloggers seemed to strike some kind of nerve with her for some reason. She has her own journal, which I visit pretty much on a daily basis – probably for the same reason she visits mine.
September 9/11
Along with America and the rest of the world, I'm in shock, and have been for the entire day. What a sad and horrifying day this been…
Terrorists have co-ordinated the hijacking of 4 planes and have destroyed the World Trade Centre in New York, along with a plane impacting into the Pentagon. Another plane was possibly aimed at Camp David, but crashed before it reached there. Thousands of people dead.
I've never been as shocked about something as I have been about this. It's like a heavy feeling in my stomach, and I've been in a dazed mood all day.
My condolences and sympathy to the people over there in New York and Washington.
