"We used to world proof our children, now we're trying to child proof the world."

Too true. But it's been going on for quite a while. Think back to all the things our government hasn't told us "for your own good", "because we didn't want people to panic". We've been lied to so much that truth would make us suspicious.

How many of you remember, or have even heard of the balloon incindiaries that Japan sent to the western U.S. toward the end of WWII? When our gov'mt finally figured out what was going on, they imposed a blackout of news of these balloon across the country "to avoid panic". Then a family on an outing found an undetonated device attached to its balloon and tried to pull it out of the bushes. The woman and 5 kids died when it detonated. So they had to let the people know so there wouldn't be any more accidents. Was there a mass panic? No. The general attitude seemed to be "Okay, we'll watch out for them" and that was that.

In fact, the only major (although fairly localized) panic in this country that I know about happened on Oct. 30, 1938, when a radio station broadcast a fictional radio program called "War of the Worlds".

Our politicians want to treat ALL of us like children: too dumb to know what we want, and too dumb to do anything about it.

Sue