Community Alert - April 2007

Dear Starchild;

While I am not the person your question was addressed to I will give an example of the difference between "feeling safe" and "being safe" and "being free".

The TSA is charged with security at airports to basically frisk feel up and grope passengers inspect their bags and so on. What TSA is doing is by their charter " making people feel safe" by their activities. TSA is not making people "be safe". There are too many vast holes in the TSA Security Theater. A major hole is the 400,000 airfield workers whose only check point clearance is showing an airport badge at the access door to the airport operations and field.

Once upon a time at an airport you were free to basically walk up to a ticket counter and buy an airline ticket to wherever and go straight to the boarding gate. This was being free. Those days are long gone.

Giving up freedom for feeling safe or even being safe is something our government force fed the sheeple to use as a control measure so sheeple would feel good towards the government because the government was doing something. Even if the majority of the sheeple don't realize its pure horse puckey.

Each freedom given up to be less free for being safe is another step towards the so-called benevolent dictatorship Bush wants us to become with him at its head.

Ron Getty
SF Libertarian

Ron:

You can still do this today. In fact I did it last December at
Teterboro Airport just outside of NYC on a private flight to Boston.
No searching, no metal detectors, nothing. So the key is to buy your
own airplane or airline.

-Derek

--- In lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com, Ron Getty <tradergroupe@...>
wrote:

Dear Starchild;

While I am not the person your question was addressed to I will

give an example of the difference between "feeling safe" and "being
safe" and "being free".

The TSA is charged with security at airports to basically frisk

feel up and grope passengers inspect their bags and so on. What TSA
is doing is by their charter " making people feel safe" by their
activities. TSA is not making people "be safe". There are too many
vast holes in the TSA Security Theater. A major hole is the 400,000
airfield workers whose only check point clearance is showing an
airport badge at the access door to the airport operations and field.

Once upon a time at an airport you were free to basically walk up

to a ticket counter and buy an airline ticket to wherever and go
straight to the boarding gate. This was being free. Those days are
long gone.

Giving up freedom for feeling safe or even being safe is something

our government force fed the sheeple to use as a control measure so
sheeple would feel good towards the government because the government
was doing something. Even if the majority of the sheeple don't
realize its pure horse puckey.

Each freedom given up to be less free for being safe is another

step towards the so-called benevolent dictatorship Bush wants us to
become with him at its head.

Ron Getty
SF Libertarian

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Subject: [lpsf-discuss] Re: Community Alert - April 2007

Hi,

    I'm just wondering, if feeling safe is a "right," how does that

mesh

with the right to be free? What about *feeling* free? Is that a

right

too, in your opinion? If not (i.e. if safety is being valued over
freedom), do you think the United States should henceforward be
referred to as the "land of the safe" rather than the "land of the
free?"

    I realize these are provocative questions, but sometimes I

think

people talk about rights and such, and lately of course, manifest

the

huge trend of elevating safety as a priority in society, without
necessarily thinking about the implications. Your feedback on these
thoughts is welcome.

Love & liberty,
            <<< starchild >>>

Hi,

    I'm just wondering, if feeling safe is a "right," how does that

mesh

with the right to be free? What about *feeling* free? Is that a

right

too, in your opinion? If not (i.e. if safety is being valued over
freedom), do you think the United States should henceforward be
referred to as the "land of the safe" rather than the "land of the
free?"

    I realize these are provocative questions, but sometimes I think
people talk about rights and such, and lately of course, manifest

the

huge trend of elevating safety as a priority in society, without
necessarily thinking about the implications. Your feedback on these
thoughts is welcome.

Love & liberty,

            <<<<<< starchild >>>

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Derek,

  If more people were in a position to do that, I have no doubts that the accompanying freedoms would disappear pretty quickly. Another way government favors the wealthy, I might add.

Love & liberty,
      <<< starchild >>>

Your probably right.

On another note, I recently reread Peter McWilliams "Ain't no body's
business if you do". Such a gift he had for communicating. Entire
book free on the web. What a great read.

Derek

Amen to that Derek...Peter was and is one of the Libertarian Greats!

RIP

Mike