The protocol defense

Another relative is in the hospital. Call up, how they doing?

Can’t talk to you without a password.

Okay. I give the family password. Every since some public disservant invented the idea of necessary passwords we have had the same one.

Sorry, wrong password.

How can that be. It is the one we always use.

Oh, but now you can’t use the same password you used in the past. You have to have a brand new password every time now. This is for your own security.

Nobody here needs security. Nobody feels threatened or feels the need for protection.

Just the same, it is for your own protection.

What if somebody did feel threatened? What if someone felt they were in danger. What security precautions would you take then?

We do not discriminate. This is why we have passwords.

So you have just enough security in place to harass everyone but not enough to really protect anyone, is that correct?

I’m sorry you feel that way, sir.

So you are telling me what you have in place is The Protocol Defense. So long as you follow protocol you it doesn’t matter what happens or to whom it happens, you can’t be blamed.

That is why we have protocol, sir. Please call back when you have a password.

 

 

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