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| Joe Bakewell. |
TRUST
Recently, a
few items in the news have caught my interest for reasons that have little to
do with the news. They are first, the objections to Amazon’s sale of facial
recognition technology to police departments in the U.S.; and second, congressional
concern for national security in the matter of forgiving ZTE, a Chinese cell
phone manufacturer, for violating sanctions on Iran and thereby allowing them
to import chips from the U.S. and to sell phones here.
I have no
special insight or information regarding either of these issues. The first
caused me to think that many, possibly most, citizens don’t trust their elected
officials to maintain control over the ethics of their police. My initial
reaction to the ZTE matter was to wonder what special interests were being
served. Might this be a protectionist move?
Taken
together, I realized that I don’t trust our government. I haven’t always been
this way. Certainly, when I joined the army and when I participated in a tiny
way in our moon landing, I was a proud American.
Today, the
self-serving, self-enriching members of our House and Senate, and their ‘fellow
travelers’ disgust me, and I feel for all the patriotic public servants who are
forced to compromise their values while doing their duty.
But, as I’ve
heard so often, “There’s nothing we can do about it.”
Joe Bakewell
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