protection, n.            Oxford’s English Dictionary

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. a.  The action of protecting; the fact or condition of being protected; shelter, defence, or presser vation from harm, danger, or evil; patronage, tutelage.

 

    b.  Euphem. The keeping of a concubine or mistress in a separate establishment.

 

    c. Freedom from molestation obtained by paying money to a person who threatens violence or retribution if payment is not made; hence protection money itself. Also in other extended uses.

 

    d. An attempt to preserve certain animals, plants, or undisturbed areas of land by enforcing rules governing access, collecting, hunting, etc.

 

    e. Electr. Engin. The action or result of PROTECT v. 4c

 

    f. Chem. The action of PROTECT v. 5a and b

 

    g. Bridge. (see quot. 1967.)

 

    h. Mountaineering. (see quot. 1971.)

 

2. A thing or person that protects.

 

3. A writing or document that guarantees protection, exemption, or immunity to the person specified in it; a safe-conduc, passport, pass; †esp. (also, letter of protection) a writing issued by the king granting immunity from arrest or lawsuit to one engaged in his services, or going abroad with his cognizance (obs.). In U.S. a certificate of American citizenship issued by the customs authorities to seamen.

 

4. Pol. Econ. The theory or system of fostering or developing home industries by protecting them from the competition of foreign productions, the importation of these being checked or discouraged by imposition of duties or otherwise.

 

5. attrib. and Comb. Of, pertaining to, or for protection, as protection fee, grant, plate, wall, work, protection-burdened adj.; protection act, an act of parliament for the protection of classes of persons, of wild birds, etc.; protection forest, a forest a whose purpose is to provide a dense cover of vegetation which helps to inhibit erosion and conserve water; protection money, money paid to secure protection (sense 1c); protection racket, an illegal scheme for the levying of protection money, †protection rent = protection money.

 

Hence pro’tectional a., of or pertaining to protection; pro’tectionary, that which provides protection; pro’tectionate a., of or pertaining to the economic theory of protection: = PROTECTIONIST a; n. = PROTECTORATE n.

From the editor...

    Too often the word “protection” conjures up a flurry of images related to conflict. Two sides anticipate an adverse event and the need for “protection” is immediately contemplated. In business and finance one may seek the protections of limited liability or insurance, but neither mechanism will forestall the ambitious opponent seeking to pierce the corporate veil or play out the cost-benefit scales of protected litigation vs. the true merits of the claim.

 

    Similarly, the best trained security team cannot thwart the ambition and resourcefulness of the motivated assassin bent on targeting a public official or celebrity he deems unfit to maintain his “office” - or simply because someone else paid him enough for the hit. At best the body guards can only make penetration a more difficult endeavor thus reducing the risk factor to the truly motivated adversaries.

 

    In the end, the best “defense” is a healthy and balanced “offense” of energy and attitude that suggests to any would-be adversary that harmony and alliance are far more cost beneficial. After all, most readers of this Journal will be the first to acknowledge that a balanced diet that yields proper alkaline levels will beat the best “vaccine” any day. Why not take our “alternative” methods of protecting the body into the rest of the facets of our lives?

 

Food for thought,

Bill Jackson

 

November 2008

Volume II    Issue  11

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