Why does the Miss American pageant believe it needs to impress the people who still watch this spectacle with the brain power of those who compete in this pageant. I know, they want us to believe that Miss America is the total package, and not just a sexy figure in swimwear.
Here's the reality of the Q&A session, 17-year-old Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan, who would soon be crowned the New Miss America, was asked a question about WikiLeaks. At 17, why do we really care what a blonde in a bikini thinks about WikiLeaks? How does a 17-year-old even form an opinion of WikiLeaks that has any relevance?
Listen, I am not trying to knock her accomplishment, but I just find the idea of asking a 17 year old in a beauty contest about the complicated subject of WikiLeaks just comical. Here's her answer:
"You know when it came to that situation, it was actually based on espionage, and when it comes to the security of our nation, we have to focus on security first and then people's right to know, because it's so important that everybody who's in our borders is safe and so we can't let things like that happen, and they must be handled properly," she said.
There is something that is alarming to me here. Scanlan is part of the 9/11 generation of children. She was six or seven years old when the planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. If this is the thinking of this generation of children, then the idea of security first before freedom is one that has indoctrinated thought since 9/11, and it totally goes against the thinking of the Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin, who once said those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. In the 9/11 generation of children, it's security before freedom.
So, while I think her answer is just a collection of words that I don't think she truly understands, the sadder truth is this idea of federal security for the people coming before knowledge of what your government is doing that could be destructive to freedom. Still her answer is still better than this (how much though...?):
There is something that is alarming to me here. Scanlan is part of the 9/11 generation of children. She was six or seven years old when the planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. If this is the thinking of this generation of children, then the idea of security first before freedom is one that has indoctrinated thought since 9/11, and it totally goes against the thinking of the Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin, who once said those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. In the 9/11 generation of children, it's security before freedom.
So, while I think her answer is just a collection of words that I don't think she truly understands, the sadder truth is this idea of federal security for the people coming before knowledge of what your government is doing that could be destructive to freedom. Still her answer is still better than this (how much though...?):
