Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Admonished People

Fred Reed just returned home to Mexico from a trip to Washington D.C., which he describes as
these days a cross between asylum for the chronically paranoid, besieged city, and kindergarten run by a totalitarian Mommy. Cops everywhere, metal detectors everywhere else, concrete stop’em-bombs on sidewalks, pop-up metal barriers on streets on Capitol Hill. Bin Laden won, big time.

We are the Admonished People. Free? No. Brave? No. Watched, warned, told, herded, yes. Urban robots.
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