Training People to Act Like Sheep
A number of people are sitting and standing in a large room. It might be a bank, or maybe the waiting room of an airport. It might even be a store. Suddenly, as Snoopy often writes in the Charlie Brown strip, a shot rings out.
A man falls to the floor, motionless. Everyone else runs, screaming, in every direction, looking for the cover of something under which to cower, quivering in fear, awaiting further shooting.
Today on the KCAL evening news, they showed video of the above scene as part of a Homeland Security drill.
What was wrong with the scene? Why, of course! People were hiding under tables and behind partitions, waiting for death. Nobody had a gun.
Has ten to twenty percent of these trainees been carrying mockup handguns in their holsters or purses, they could've had a real drill in which the trainees could simulate shooting or arresting the mock killer before he could cause any further mock damage.
Sadly, it isn't within the psychological makeup of the jackbooted thugs of Homeland Security who formulate such drills, to put together a scenario in which the prospective victims could actually defend themselves. Yet, a populace capable if its own self defense is by far the best way to deal with the "terrorism" with which we're supposedly warring.
It leads me to suspect (as I've written several times) that the entire "war on terror" is nothing more than a plan to more rapidly put an end to the freedom we all own as sentient beings and which the people who regard themselves our leaders wish to see ended.
The actors in the drill were clearly depicted as helpless, and simply waiting to die, or perhaps be rescued by the armored and anonymous police squads upon which we're being taught to depend. I Find the entire notion both disgusting and offensive.
They've killed Freedom! Those bastards!
Warm regards,
Col. Hogan
Stalag California
2 comments:
"Sadly, it isn't within the psychological makeup of the jackbooted thugs of Homeland Security who formulate such drills, to put together a scenario in which the prospective victims could actually defend themselves."
Around these parts, most people i know would never think that they should be able to fight their own battles and the authorities are always quick to say, run/comply/hide/do nothing.
Sadly i don't think it's within the psychological makeup of the majority of the citizens to demand the right to defend themselves, let alone take on the responsibility to actually do it.
Folks like me want to look after ourselves because that's what adults do. However most people i come across don't want that level of freedom and responsibility and they are perfectly happy to trade some of their freedoms for protection from the nanny state.
MK,
Y'know, I might actually be inclined to sympathize with the sentiment if the state could actually provide the protection. But, I'd still want my gun securely in its holster under my left arm.
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