Anthony Gregoy asks a very good question today: Does government ever protect us? It is a question I have asked over, and over, and over, since September 11, 2001. On that day, the United States government was hard pressed to put two fighter jets into the air in a timely manner.
Yet, when Ronald Reagan died, the Pentagon could magically put at least a dozen planes into the air, continuosuly, for nearly a week, to practice and then perform the fly-overs for the ceremony.
Government does not protect us, and it is not about protecting us. It is about protecting itself. From us, if necessary.
9:34 am on December 2, 2005
