When people are free to go where they want, do what they want and say what they want, how can any leader assure security? The only way to guarantee no foreign enemy is walking within your borders is to know precisely every individual’s identity. The only way to guarantee no domestic enemy is plotting from their property is to monitor precisely every individual’s intentions. Make no mistake about it, a life free from any risk of terror is a life without freedom, with no exceptions.
fas·cism [fash-iz-uhm]
-noun
1. A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
American military spending far exceeds the total of every other nation on earth combined. Does any country really need to be concerned that every nation on earth will attack in a mass coordinated strike? Does this monstrous budget actually make anyone safer?
I recently came across the following entrepreneurship ranking which I found quite interesting. The list is produced by amalgamating the World Bank’s Doing Business Report and the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor produced by Babson College and the London Business School to create an entirely new ranking referred to simply as the “FSB score”. Combining both these sources with equal weighting creates a new figure that takes many things into account, including: starting a business, operating a business and something called high-expectation entrepreneurship.
In the end, every argument descends to this fundamental philosophical question — Is it more important not to obstruct the best of us, or to help the worst of us even we fail. I don’t believe these two options are mutually exclusive, but at the core of every political disagreement I have ever had is this question, and it is simply a matter of priority. The great dilemma is how to win this argument.
