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Life imitates art, or what Babylon 5 taught me....
In this case? Security as theater. Most Americans, if they see something they feel is suspicious or people who look dangerous, will report that to a security guard or police officer. They don't need this at all. Ergo -- theater.
Do we need to be paranoid yet? (About this? Probably not. Otherwise? Heck, yes....)
Some links:
1. Walmart Partners with U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
"6 Dec 2010 ... Everyone has a role to play in keeping themselves
and their communities safe."
walmartstores.com/pressroom/news/10493.aspx
2. Wal-Mart joins Homeland Security terror fight - U.S. news ...
"7 Dec 2010 ... To expand its anti-terrorism campaign, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security has partnered with Wal-Mart,
bringing its 'If You See ..."
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40552073/ns/us_news-security/
3. Walmart Shoppers: Homeland Security Wants You : NPR
"11 Dec 2010 ... Starting this week, Walmart shoppers will be
treated to a short video from Homeland Security chief Janet
Napolitano, urging them to report ..."
www.npr.org/2010/12/11/131991345/wal-mart-shoppers-homeland-security-wants-you
Do we need to be paranoid yet? (About this? Probably not. Otherwise? Heck, yes....)
Some links:
1. Walmart Partners with U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
"6 Dec 2010 ... Everyone has a role to play in keeping themselves
and their communities safe."
walmartstores.com/pressroom/news/10493.aspx
2. Wal-Mart joins Homeland Security terror fight - U.S. news ...
"7 Dec 2010 ... To expand its anti-terrorism campaign, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security has partnered with Wal-Mart,
bringing its 'If You See ..."
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40552073/ns/us_news-security/
3. Walmart Shoppers: Homeland Security Wants You : NPR
"11 Dec 2010 ... Starting this week, Walmart shoppers will be
treated to a short video from Homeland Security chief Janet
Napolitano, urging them to report ..."
www.npr.org/2010/12/11/131991345/wal-mart-shoppers-homeland-security-wants-you
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JMS read copiously in his youth -- everything from history to philosophy and folklore. He knows that history, if not read carefully, repeats itself (partly because we're a hierarchical species with the instinct to dominate and to cooperate. Those instincts fight constantly, depending on the gene mix.)
He's a good storyteller. He paid attention to what he read, and what's around him. There may be another civil war in our lifetimes, over keeping the constitution or remaking it into what a lot of people today think -- or want -- the constitution to be. Are you ready for it? We may have to move -- I think we'll be constitutionalists, not revisionists.
Writers read, digest, remember. It's why they look prescient.