The objective of Security is to ensure the integrity of people, physically and mentally, as well as everything necessary to achieve this, property, health, food, communications, etc.
To do this, the vulnerabilities of the system to be secured must be determined. In this way, the risks can be evaluated and, once these have been assessed, a security plan can be drawn up that meets the above-mentioned objective.
Hardly any Western country has performed any of the functions necessary to carry out citizen protection. Many of the actions have been erratic, ignoring scientific criteria and abusing almost exclusively political criteria.
All this could have happened because values are changing for the worse, Ministries of Economy that instead of generating wealth and creating companies, close them down, unjust Ministries of Justice, Ministries of the Interior that do not protect citizens or their property and are only concerned with confining individual and social freedoms, Equality only for a few, technicians who seem to be politicians. The only thing that has not changed is the Treasury, the obligation to declare.
That is why no one in the Spanish government was able to understand what was happening in China first and then in Italy. Only Germany and Sweden have made more rational plans, thinking of the citizens to be protected, without closing everything or confining everyone.
No less important is the absence of credible and serious data.
How can a National Security Plan be built under these conditions? It is practically impossible. To make it possible, information should flow and the participation of all public and private sectors should be encouraged.
One of the things that should have been determined is the extent not only of the people, but also of the resources to address the vulnerabilities that have been identified. And then allocate the money needed to avoid or mitigate the problem as much as possible.
But guided by the exercise of confusion, vulnerability has been understood as weakness, the sincerity of recognising a complex situation, as the arrogance of the ignorant or the pimp who seems to know everything and knows nothing, only to hold on to power.
Manuel García Ramírez
Independent consultant. Director of MGR Consultores IT y Seguridad. Former IT Production Manager in Financial Institutions. Director of Security at the Catholic University of Ávila. Degree in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid.