Fearful Times

There is no doubt that we live in fearful times. We see evidence of it all over the TV, the radio, newspapers and in public chat rooms all over the Internet. We see terrorist plots everywhere, we see evildoers of all stripes lurking in the shadows just waiting to pounce on some unsuspecting soul. In the last 20 years we have gone from a proud, strong and energetic nation to one that seems to be full of people afraid of their own shadows. How has this happened? How have we gone from the land of the free and home of the brave, to the land of the skittish and home of the fearful in only three presidents?

When I think back on 1986, I remember being very proud of my country, my president and my people. Now maybe it's just me, but it seems that today, as I look out across the landscape of my homeland, all I seem to find are people demanding that the government protect them at all costs from every conceivable danger that they can imagine happening. We, as a people, seem to spend our time fretting about what might happen to us at any given moment and are so willing to surrender many of our liberties in the hope that our government can make the bad things disappear. WOW! What a change in a short two decades.