Safety First, Comrade

American Thinker ^ | 29 Aug, 2026 | Joan Swirsky

[MtnClimber]

The communists who want to run our country and our lives have no regard for our well-being. Just look at a little history, plus the present day.

When I was studying to become a nurse in the late 1960s, I learned that the most important value in patient care, for both nurses and doctors, is safety. Not curing, which is hoped for but often impossible, and not even empathy, although a high priority. That is because the patient who falls out of bed or is given the wrong dose of medicine or whose grievance is ignored or — yikes! this just happened in Nashville — may pay with nothing less than his life.

As a mother of three, I already knew this. All the love and support and education in the world meant nothing in comparison to keeping my young children safe — away from unprotected electrical outlets, sharp table corners, a hot stove, automobile traffic, people with contagious diseases, and of course bad values.

I never forgot this lesson: safety first, a value that applies as well — first and foremost and above all others — to our country.

Among the most blatant of unsafe conditions is a home without locks on the doors and windows or, today, that lacks some kind of alarm or alert system. Does even one person you know or have ever known in your entire life live in a home, apartment, condo, or co-op with no locks on its doors or windows? An honest answer would be a thundering “no!”

That is because we live in a world where there are people who are seriously mentally disturbed and criminals too numerous to mention whose raison d’être is to rob you of your possessions and often rape you or torture you or kill you

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

Yes, the purpose of the mass illegal immigration in Europe and North America is to overwhelm the governments and collapse the system. It is Cloward-Piven. In the US they always intended for the illegals to vote.

Clinton Motor-Voter Law Signing Ceremony

[ClearCase_guy]

[marktwain]

I know of numerous places where people routinely leave their doors unlocked.

Such conditions exist in a considerable amount of rural America.

As John Lott has noted, crime is very concentrated in the USA.

Many places exist where crime is extremely low.

[Bon of Babble]

The communists who want to run our country and our lives have no regard for our well-being.

Of course, bc/ they don't have to live like the rest of us - they'll have their gas powered cars, heated homes, luxury life styles, vacations - all paid for by beleaguered taxpayers, while they lord over us.

I am always reminded of that old saw about those who refuse to learn from history - but in this case, the true outcome of communism/socialism is not taught in American schools, and in face, they are praised.

No one listened to Margaret Thatcher, who had it exactly right.

[DugwayDuke]

From the article: “Does even one person you know or have ever known in your entire life live in a home, apartment, condo, or co-op with no locks on its doors or windows? An honest answer would be a thundering “no!””

Well, yes, I remember once upon a time when we were getting ready to depart on a month long vacation and the question arose ‘should we lock the door’.

We didn’t because no one could find the key. If you don’t have the key required to lock the door, then there is no lock.