Our rights are eroded by crisis

There was a time when you could walk on any commercial airliner without restraint. If you were ticketed, they directed you where  to go.  No molestation.  Nothing.

I recall once running to a Northwest Flight to Winnipeg Manitoba.  I bought the ticket and ran to the plane.  This was in the late 60s early 70s.  Flying was easy then.

However after that several Hijackings took place.  This meant metal detectors to get to the gate.  But the whole family could gather there.  The last one of significance was in 1989 over Lockerbie Scotland, Pan Am 103.  Then security was increased a great deal at airports around the world.  Most Hijackings pretty much stopped, but freedom to fly was much changed.

The world changed and not for the better.  This was the case and it worked pretty well until 9-11.  The planes hijacked and used as weapons in New York City and at the Pentagon meant we are missing something.  Even though the vast majority of these events of hijacking and 9-11 were caused by Radical Muslim Terrorists, we have all been stripped of more rights.  Now flying is a pain.  TSA.  One dope tried to light his shoe on fire… and so.. now we walk barefoot in Airports.  It has become very hard to fly  and it’s changed the whole atmosphere. 

Homeland Security, the patriot act and TSA and a dozen other useless bureaucracies now rule us by default. 

So as we look at the world to come after the Corona 19 pandemic, how many MORE of our fundamental constitutional rights will be stripped away. TOO MANY.

I am going to suggest that we stop trying to live in a perfectly safe world.  Freedom is not free if we live virtual prison life.  It is high time to stop being worried about every little thing.

Safety First is a misnomer.  It should be Safety THIRD.  It should be Freedom First. 

I know we are about to change.. but we don’t have to change for the sake of change.