Monday 30 November 2015

Quote Of The Month

Clarissa on the clamouring for more State power in the wake of the Paris attacks:
The brutal truth, although you might not like it very much, is that the price of living in a liberal democracy is that occasionally we will be the victims of an outrage such as we saw in Paris on Friday night. No, that doesn’t mean I want to see people murdered in cold blood. Nor does it mean that I disapprove of sensible precautionary measures that may prevent incidents (such as not allowing those with mental health issues to have access to firearms**). What it does mean is that I am an intelligent, grown-up human being who accepts the possibility of it occurring rather than someone who is so scared that something bad might happen to me that I wish to sacrifice my freedom in order to be swaddled in the dubious comfort blanket of the police state.

3 comments:

mikebbravo said...

No intelligent, grown ups required here.
The state requires nothing but scared, compliant drones.

Ted Treen said...

Perfectly correct:- as is MB's comment above. Unfortunately the old Roman idea of 'Bread & Circuses' still works as well as ever.

JuliaM said...

Now it's virtual bread and circuses!