March 12, 2003

SAFETY

Safety is apparently the new mantra of America. It has replaced "for the children" as the means of our enslavement. There is no such thing, there never was, and there never will be. We will all die eventually, regardless of what the overseers do.

Patrick Henry said it best, "give me liberty or give me death." A safe slave never gets out of bed in the morning, but even then the sky might fall on him. I mentioned jokingly that when our modern era of "safety" began, our government should have instead built large prison camps, put the overseers on the walls with machine guns, and let anyone who wanted safety to voluntarily enter, and be "safe". Leaving the rest of us outside, to live free. (and unsafe)

The Constitution didn't promise us safety, but it does mention that all men are created equal, (not two classes) an it also mentions life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I Don't Want Safety. When I must bow down to an overseer, he will generally act his arrogant part while he asks me to produce my "papers", and inspects to see that I am unarmed while facing his well-armed self.

I am told I will be "safer" the more times I show my "papers", and the more checkpoints I pass through. I am told that I am "safer" if guns are outlawed for slaves, or at least only allowed for certain regulated, inspected, permitted, and databased slaves. Meanwhile, the overseer class, except for the armed guards, works in better and better armed compounds, behind concrete barricades. I am told that I am safer on an aircraft if I am inspected to ensure that I have not even a fingernail file, and of course have proper "papers"; if a terrorist happens to be on the airplane, it will be shot down by an F-16 "for my safety".

I am supposed to feel "safer" if I see more overseers with uniforms and guns, even though I know that virtually every time an overseer uses a weapon to shoot someone, it's OK, because he's a certified overseer, but if a slave were to shoot someone, that would be a major crime.

There are now more laws to protect my "safety" than I could possibly list. But I guarantee, I'll die eventually, unless they pass another law.

Posted by Jack W. Boone at March 12, 2003 08:56 PM | TrackBack
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