Every dollar needlessly spent on our military … diminishes our overall security.
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
We disarm ourselves by making weapons so expensive.
We cannot afford no security, but we also cannot afford total security.
The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.
But a lot of businesses out there don't see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it's still a hard sell for people.
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
