[Rather than strain a tired brain beyond its current capacity, I’ve decided to recycle a piece from 2017, when the urban rioting we’ve “enjoyed” since then was just coming over the horizon. – FWP] *** A great deal of one’s ability to feel secure – i.e., prepared for likely developments rather than threatened …
Category: safety and security
May 08 2021
Death Of A Nation
In 1915, a man named D. W. Griffith made a movie that – as we like to say these days – excited some controversy. It was titled Birth of a Nation. It was a Civil-War movie – that’s the War Between The States for any Copperheads in the audience – that was mostly about …
Apr 14 2021
A New Kind Of “Mistake”
I think we’ll be seeing this more often: Sunday’s fatal shooting in a Minneapolis suburb was the 18th time in the past 20 years that police officers used a gun when they said they intended to use a Taser, according to a use-of-force researcher. By comparison, police kill about 1,000 people each …
Feb 15 2021
The Fearful And What They Fear
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity They seem more afraid of life than death. – James F. Byrnes There was no security in this world and only damn fools and mice thought there could be. – Robert A. Heinlein, Glory Road These past two days, I’ve encountered several …
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