People seem set on their opinions when it comes to security and I certainly do not want to change yours. Security is big business- some of it justified, but most driven by fear and watching too many TV programs that feed our minds with garbage. Sadly, it is all some know and they push it off on others. I actually wish most of those police and detective shows were eliminated. "The final bill for the 2012 Olympics security could be ten times higher than the original estimate, according to an investigation. The predicted cost of the games when London won the bid in 2005 was 2.37billion. That figure has now spiraled to more than 12 billion and could reach as much as 24 billion, the Sky Sports investigation claims. The Olympics public sector funding package, which covers the building of the venues, security and policing, was upped to around 9.3bn in 2007.
I laughed at this superbowl commercial on youtube.com. Today’s video does not happen at our church- and that is the point they are trying to make. You are safe and you are welcome- see you next Sunday. So- do Secret Service Agents make lousy Greeters or not?
Status Update
By Mike Huckabee
Should a mother be jailed for letting her daughter play in the park?... Debra Harrell of North Augusta, South Carolina, works at McDonald’s to support her 9-year-old daughter. She can’t afford day care, and her daughter was bored, so Debra let her go by herself to a nearby park. There were lots of other people there, and she had a cell phone. On the third day, a woman asked her where her parents were, then called the police. Debra was arrested for child neglect, and her daughter taken into state custody. Some people are rallying to her defense, while others say it’s too dangerous to let a child out of your sight. This story made me think back to when I was a kid. Every summer, we were shooed out of the house early and didn’t come home until suppertime. Some of us even had summer jobs at age 9. Oh, but it’s different now: sexual assault of children is way up! Actually, no: it’s down 62 percent since 1990. What IS different: we didn’t have 24-hour news channels to turn every tragedy, no matter how rare, into a ‘round-the-clock media frenzy.
This story is adding more fuel to the big debate between helicopter parents and advocates of free-range kids. One side believes that kids never develop self-confidence and independence if you don’t give them the freedom to explore the world. The other side sees the world as filled with scary strangers, just waiting for parents to look away for a split-second. Please understand, I’m not saying there’s no such thing as “stranger danger.” But there’s also a slight danger that any plane could crash, yet it doesn’t keep most of us from flying. Was Debra negligent for leaving her daughter in a public park instead of putting her into day care? Well, consider that not only is sexual assault of children way down, but when it does happen, 93 percent of the time, the culprit is someone the child knows. Sixty-nine percent of the time, it happens inside the residence of someone involved. So Debra could argue that statistically, that park full of strangers was much safer than a daycare center. After all, who was it who cared enough to get involved and call the police? A stranger.
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