21Aug06

Doc Gunn just sent me a note this morning with a news story about an escape d inmate being involved in a shooting at a nearby hospital. His analysis is unvarnished and classic:

"The only authentic protection one may have is that which he provide s for himself. Without exception, all institutional 'security' is a bogus farce/comedy- counterfeit window dressing, designed solely to placate the ma ss of timid grasseaters and cause them, in true, lemming-like fashion, to suspend reality long enough to foolishly believe themselves safe from violent attac k. As we see, all it takes to shatter this fraud is a determined individual with evil intent. In the aftermath, there will be the requiem Three-Stooges-sty le fervor throughout the health-care system, and predictably, a new layer of half-witted, unenforceable regulations. Afterward, things will quickly set tle back down to where they were. In the end, nothing will have changed. I've seen it time and again."

As friend in a large, federal agency adds: "I'm weary of bei ng surrounded by jellyfish- neutered 'managers' (we have no leaders) who, after having their gag reflex surgically removed, suffocate the life out of the rest of us, wh o are naively striving to actually accomplish something."

In 1857 Lincoln said, "As a nation of free men, we shall live foreve r- or die by suicide!"

Yes, suicide by slow strangulation!

/John