Irrelevant, but irritating

Allmusic
Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:14:16 +0000

Some people look at the loss of personal rights as the price they have to pay for safety and security. Call me a pessimist (it wouldn’t be the first time!), but are we really safer? I’d say absolutely not.

Of much greater danger than that posed by an airplane hijacker or terrorist, is the one posed to our unprotected natural gas sites, for example (it actually wouldn’t be as hard as all that to blow up the LNG tanker right near me in Boston, and the potential damage would make 9/11 look like a picnic in the park). And what about mass transit?

All this fuss about a book or a lipstick or mascara doesn’t make us any safer, and it is an illusion to those who believe it does.