Life long motto: “Don’t Trouble Trouble Until Trouble Troubles You”. The thesis is that there are hazards just by virtue of being alive. You cannot spend your life in fear of what might happen outside of taking reasonable precautions for your own safety.
There will always be evil people in the world. Should the athletes at Munich not have participated just because Palestinians hated their country? Maybe I should stop shopping because gunmen regularly mow down people at the mall. Let’s take the kids out of school. They don’t need an education if it means another Uvalde.
Those people on those 9/11 planes and in the Towers did not go looking for trouble, but it came to them. A few thousand people died. Thousands more have died in Iraq. Within very recent memory,
Mother Nature has polished off several hundred thousand people. Do you think we could get her to give up hurricanes, tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes? … Everybody move out of Los Angeles, she tends to be stubborn.
It is right for the government to take action to protect its citizens and curb the actions of those who wish us ill. It is not right for them to do it in such a manner as in Minneapolis to injure protestors while threatening the rights of all. A secret, uncontrolled government is much more of a threat to the citizens of the nation in the long run. We have a President who operates in secret without the consent of Congress to visit terror and deportation on the undocumented without due process, no matter their current status . ICE is just as much of an enemy and threat to our safety as any foreign enemy.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with the following, “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. “
Live dangerously. Drive on the freeway.
