The most incompetent institution in the world -- otherwise known as the federal government -- has a new plan to protect you from terrorism. Get this . . .
Fishermen on Lake Erie must now carry passports, in case they cross the invisible border with Canada that bisects the lake. Then, thanks to the so-called Department of Homeland Security, when the fishermen return to shore, they must drive to a government office and have their pictures taken.
Do you feel safer?
To us, this is yet another example of what a sham the government's supposed war on terror is. It's more evidence that the government is trying to do too much, in too many areas, with too little focus. It remains the case that, statistically speaking, the danger presented by terrorism is one of the smallest we face.
The new Lake Erie passport/photograph requirement is just one more government overreaction.
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I don't feel safer, I think I already feel poorer. I can imagine them trying to bring a fleet of enforcement boats loaded with Coast Guard.