A silly argument in the first place... but my point:
Lunatic terrorists can be EXPECTED to do rash and evil things. Our government agencies MUST be expected NOT TO.
Sure it was a silly argument. It was meant to be.
And I completely agree with the second statement above. However, we all know we don't live in a perfect world. It is a world shaped in numerous ways by various people possessing a variety of attitudes and agendas.
You, like so many others, continue to address those "nasty" government agencies alledging they are to blame for all of these civil rights violations.
But any agency, like any company, or any family, is made up of people. Some are smart, some are incredibly incompetent, some really care while others are indifferent. Some feel their patriotic duty while others are merely there to collect a check in a secure job position.
Some of these people have lofty aspirations for their agencies, while others have only selfish aspirations for their own professional power.
It has always been this way and always will, so long as imperfect and selfish people are placed in positions of national authority/responsibility.
But just because certain individuals abuse their powers and the media pays special attention to these abuses (sometimes they don't), doesn't mean that there aren't others willing to maintain their professionalism and duty to our constitutional rights and preservation of our freedoms.
I will bet that there are more of the latter than the former. And it will be these people who will work to ensure that those political appointees and power crazed or incompetent, pay for their mistakes, professionally or criminally.
That is just my opinion. But I'm sick of the way I hear people whine about the gov't and believe that it operates like some kind of well-oil machine made to grind up our rights and freedoms. It is made up of people with the same faults and frailities as you or I.
Hope I make myself a bit clearer here. Personally, I think some of the people that were behind the Waco raid should be in jail for negligent homicide. However, after today's vote in the Senate, we all know how politics work to protect the guilty in the interest of preserving the "integrity" of the institution.
Regards,
Ron |
