Here's the story. A security firm had been doing an exercise at Old Trafford football ground and,when everybody had packed up and gone home, a dummy bomb had been left behind.
Come match-day, when over 40,000 fans were arriving for the last game of the season a shoe box with knitting needles sticking out was discovered.
I think you can guess the rest of the story: game cancelled, 40,000 people sent home, traffic jams, parameter fence established, fire, police, ambulances and army called in. ALL FOR WHAT?
A shoe box with a few wires hanging out.
A fiasco indeed.
The western world is being nannified and coddled by whole legions of "do-gooders" who think that it is their chief calling in life to protect the public.
But do the public want protecting, or would 40,000 of them prefer to watch soccer, while somebody with brains sends the shoe-box back to the firm who left it there the day before?
O but the TERRORISTS! They are out to kill people. Of course they are, but let's get on with the business of living, which is always a daily balance between risk and reward.
There is wonderful proverb in the Bible:
"There is a lion in the streets: I cannot go out today."
Where Solomon is sarcastically saying "O really!"
But we hear "O. The danger!"
The danger, my friends exists largely between people's ears while the TRUE peril lies elsewhere.
Consider the words of Jesus:
"Fear not him who can only kill the body, but fear Him who, having killed the body, has power to cast body and soul into hell." Luke 12:5
But nobody reads God's Book these days, therefore fictitious lions roam the streets while human beings sit at home and shiver behind closed doors.
Jubilate.
Ian
