tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post9190332545326079731..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Closing the Washington Monument?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91774242429938330982011-01-13T12:09:48.348-05:002011-01-13T12:09:48.348-05:00"after the right has run its last several ele..."after the right has run its last several elections on security"<br /><br />Surely not! Democrats are always the one hanging the sword of fear over the voters' heads. I'm positive I remember Jimmy Carter running the "bear in the woods" commercial in the 1984 campaign, and John Kerry threatening us with wolves and saying "terrorism" and "9/11" every other sentence in 2004...<br /><br />(dislodges tongue from cheek)Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430151102779191991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-59546826428818330132011-01-12T14:56:22.405-05:002011-01-12T14:56:22.405-05:00Yes, like the “Washington Monument ploy,” I think ...Yes, like the “Washington Monument ploy,” I think this was an attempt to wake people up to realities by asking, “Is this what you really want?”<br /><br />And by “people” I think he really means us, the voters. The National Park Service answers to Congress, and Congress answers to voters, and neither the N.P.S. nor Congress is ready to accept anything less than 100% security unless we voters are able to accept that. <br /><br />Brutus tried to blame one part of the political spectrum even after the right has run its last several elections on security. That suggests that at least some of us wouldn’t be able to accept a limited security breach without trying to cast blame on who “allowed it to happen.”J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-78517178451413286422011-01-12T08:32:51.200-05:002011-01-12T08:32:51.200-05:00I'm pretty sure that Mr. Schneier's intent...I'm pretty sure that Mr. Schneier's intent was to make a sarcastic comment about Congressional leadership, rather than a serious proposal.<br /><br />The knee-jerk comment by "Brutus" is amusing. If anything, Mr. Schneier is *criticizing* the "bureaucrats and liberals" for their lack of leadership.Peter Ansoffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-65958125567062318202011-01-11T11:50:26.122-05:002011-01-11T11:50:26.122-05:00Bruce Schneier isn’t a bureaucrat. I don’t know ab...<a href="http://www.schneier.com/about.html" rel="nofollow">Bruce Schneier</a> isn’t a bureaucrat. I don’t know about his politics, though he’s <a href="http://www.schneier.com/essays.html" rel="nofollow">written a lot on security issues</a>. <br /><br />The last decades in the U.S. produced an awful lot of rhetoric aimed at raising fear from the Bush-Cheney administration and their conservative supporters, in and out of government. So your comment looks like baseless grumbling from behind the protection of a pseudonym. But thanks for demonstrating your outlook.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-21065386616959507632011-01-11T11:38:43.137-05:002011-01-11T11:38:43.137-05:00Fear Marketing...typical M.O. of bureaucrats and l...Fear Marketing...typical M.O. of bureaucrats and liberals in general...Brutusnoreply@blogger.com