'IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING' is apparently a new-ish campaign to remind us that we live in dangerous times. Admittedly, I'm biased against this administration and might not have been so creeped out by this if it had been done by President Bush -- and I do know that to some extent it was initiated by Bush. (One of my favorite lines of his presidency was his response when asked what irregular behavior citizens should be on the look-out for: "if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to [them] -- report it", but I digress.)
However, this Big Brother-ish approach -- complete with computer screens at retail counters admonishing us to spy on each other -- coupled with the TSA overreach, the invasive healthcare bill, and other small infringements on our liberty (including my own recent brush with red light cameras) makes me uneasy. It feels like the death of liberty by a thousand cuts -- which is exactly how our liberty will meet its demise.
Maybe I'm naive and overestimate my fellow citizens (although, read the "About Me" and you'll see that's not true), but I don't think we need a reminder to be on the alert for things that seem suspicious. In my estimation, it is our government that has forgotten about 9/11, not our nation.
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