Somebody Has to Die

In most bureaucracies, someone has to DIE before they’ll do necessary things. In Florida, when I was a paramedic, we came on a bunch of cops with a man in cardiac arrest, whom they would not allow us to touch OR transport because we were out of our zone, returning from (a block away) a hospital run. The “zone ambulance” was seven miles away. The man died waiting. I saw to it the Emergency “czar” there was removed and the law changed so the paramedic in charge could ORDER transfer in such cases AFTER this man died. In Washington, DC, the guards at the Holocaust Museum repeatedly asked for bullet-proof vests because of the possibility of violence from “Jew-haters.” They were refused, or “stonewalled.” Now a guard has been shot and killed. Look for the bureaucracy to hurriedly issue bullet-proof vests and the bureaucrats to claim credit for “protecting our security officers” after this man was killed. (Just common sense)