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The City (or Manhattan at least) can be locked down and have checkpoints at the choke-point entrances; not so much for the rest of the nation. For citizens use

The City (or Manhattan at least) can be locked down and have checkpoints at the choke-point entrances; not so much for the rest of the nation. For citizens used to security in their office and apartment buildings, having some security personnel check people "at the door" to the city is just a natural extension. The hard truth is that in an expanding security bureaucracy, the weak point becomes the bureaucracy; no need to sneak past security if you can sneak people into the security role who are on your side. Subversion is harder to do when the security bureaucracy is smaller.

jrs235 14y ago
You need decentralized security. Consolidating power to fewer and fewer people, governments, departments makes it easier for a single person to obtain a position of trust and abuse the entire system. This is why we should repeal the 17th amendment. It's easier (and less expensive) to persuade the populace and buy an election (and buy a Senator) than it is to persuade numerous state legislatures and buy numerous state legislatures. Swing and buy 51 elections and buy 51 senators or try to influence and swing 26 state legislatures consisting of hundreds of people in order to achieve the same results. Consolidation of power is a bad thing.