Jacqui Smith demonstrates her facile, shallow intellect when talking about plans to control sex offenders’ access to Internet sites:
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she wanted children to be “free from fear”.
Quite apart from not appreciating the difficulties these proposals mean when they attempt to put them into practice – throw-away email addys anyone? That statement is, without doubt, one of the most stupid I’ve heard coming from the mouth of a politician for a while – and, it is not without some stiff competition.
Fear is good. Fear is what keeps us alive. Fear is nature’s survival mechanism. A little fear instilled into children will prepare them for the realities of life in the real world. The real world is a big bad place and there are people out there who want to do bad things to us – so a little healthy fear keeps us on our toes. A world where we have no fear is a world where we are wrapped in cotton wool and, cosseted by a loving, caring, controlling state, we suffocate to death.
What a stupid, stupid woman.