Government Screws Up, People Pay the Price

Its amazing at how the government continues to blunder multiple issues from airline security to health care and yet a large segment of the population is ever willing to entrust more power to the government to regulate every aspect of our lives.

Consider that multiple attacks by air from 9/11 onwards have been thwarted by average citizens with the courage to stand up to terrorists aboard planes attempting to crash them into government buildings or blow them up with show and underwear bombs.

And what is the result of these heroic actions by the people? We're punished with ridiculous rules at the airport enforced by incompetent government employees that humiliate grandmothers, toddlers, and the disabled.

We are so paralyzed by political correctness that common sense is entirely absent from our domestic national security practices. The government refuses to acknowledge that 99% of the threats from terrorism stem from young, Muslim males with ties to radical mosques and counties, and who frequently have "Mohammad" somewhere in their name. Of course not all Muslims are terrorists, but Muslims also need to come to the realization that a problem exists in their midst and the more they do to neutralize it, the easier things will be for everyone. In short, it's time to start profiling.

This is not a conservative or liberal problem, this is a civilizational problem. I fear we're slowly committing civilizational suicide for lack of common sense and reason. Let's not forget, it was reason and logic that gave birth to Western Civilization's achievements.