Crisis Events and Freedom

Crisis events are the main threat to freedom in our country.

October 5, 2003

9-11: A Memoir: The experience of Andrew on that tragic day three years ago.

Airport Security: Keeping Me Off Planes: Why Andrew is scared to ride planes, with all the security, and crap that people have to go through to get on planes.

Civil Liberties for Bin Laden?: Why you shouldn't give up Civil Liberties & Rights During Wartime.

Dealing with the Bioterror Threat: Suggestions on how to address this problem through tapping community resources.

Free the Basic Reservoir: 9/11 closed a great resource for locals. Let's reopen it now.

Logic in a World of Terror: Brief thoughts on logic, science, and policy in our post-9/11 world today.

More Thoughts on the PATRIOT Act and It's Sons: Andrew takes another look at the PATRIOT Act.

Poverty: The Root Cause of 9-11: Ending world poverty, will bring world peace.

Security Lies: When government promises security, they only promise lies.

She's Come Undone: Commentary on the PATRIOT Act and COINTELPRO.

Should We Support the Taliban?: A seditous article that argues for free speech and support of the Taliban.

Terrorism: Some thoughts on terrorism and our society.

Terrorism Strikes Deep: Two Months Later: A reflection of lost lives, enviromental destruction,lost civil liberties and a war.

Unfree America: America's lack of freedom in a coming of age, sucks.

Crisis Events and Freedom

Freedom is in peril. It's under siege everyday. See, I have the start of an ACLU or NRA ad in the beginning of this piece of fodder. But guess what kids—it's true!

I intend this rather short piece of fodder to be a statement of principle. Here is goes:

Crisis Events and Focusing Events are the greatest threat to American society today. By focusing our attention on selected events we are distorting our perspective and creating bad public policy that unnecessarily demises our freedom.

That's a pretty short definition, in the grand scheme of things. But I think it has a profound effect on the way I think, and more importantly, on the reality of our world.

It's what this whole site is about—that definition is a little bit more precise then other ones I've given in the past—it's an accumulation of all my ideas I've written in the past.

The examples are extensive. Look at my ideas on high school violence/shootings. Look at my seemingly endless thoughts on burn barrels and ATVs. Even my discussion of agriculture seems to play on this definition (in a remote sort of way).

If I where writing a book, I'd make sure that paragraph went on the first page of the introduction. So hopefully you understand better where I'm coming from.