The Ultimate Government Immorality!

19 July 08

The ultimate government immorality, from a friend traveling in IL:

"...last week, on my way to a new job out West, I'm driving through IL. I stopped at a freeway rest area. On my way to the restroom, I see a blue kiosk in the distance. As I approach, it becomes clear that this is an emergency call-station, complete with rotating, blue lights that is apparently designed to make one think a beat car is always there and at your service.

Imagine the relief experienced by a would-be violent-crime victim, spying this beacon in the night! She/he flees to its safety, secure in the knowledge that rescue is at hand.

Imagine her shock and disappointment upon arriving at this totem-pole of security. A sign reading 'Out of Order' is attached to the kiosk with four, heavy, rusting screws, indicating that this is neither a recent, nor temporary, interruption of service. At the next rest area, I discovered the identical situation.

These conspicuous, slowly-corroding, blue kiosks are, as it turns out, little more than empty, bogus monuments to government incompetence and arrogant detachment in IL. What a fraud!"

Comment: It is the height of immorality when politicians and bureaucrats, who perpetually insist that they alone are authorized to protect us, simultaneously deny us any capacity to unilaterally protect ourselves, while, at the same time, accepting no responsibility to do so, indeed attempting to delude us with a scam like this. Disgusting!

/John