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Quote by: Osborn F Enready I think the whole problem comes from misconception of what a "police force" is supposed to do.
A police force is a "reactionary force", that is sometimes used to curb blatant crime by making a visible presence.
Some people think police are supposed to "PROTECT" everyone, which they are not. Protection is YOUR job, reporting a crime is YOUR JOB, and then the police come in to REACT to the crime once reported.
National Security should be focused at ports of entry, not roaming around public areas. National Security should be enforcing the border against ALL illegal immigrants, and ensuring that all "reactionary forces" are adequately supplied with people, material and goods to deal with the most likely possibilities of weakness in the regional areas being viewed individually.
I agree also Brien when you say:
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Clearly the police are a reactionary force in society. Yet there are times when they are much more pervasive. The delicate balance is what is being upset by such over reactions like in the Patriot Act.
The American government needs to be proactive when it comes to domestic defense. These plans must be tempered by the Constitution and the BOR.
As for cyanide in the subways, since we don't know what the delivery system(s) would have been, how can we devise a prophylactic device or system(s to prevent such an attack. Do the police search everyone who enters the turnstile of the subway? Hardly. Cyanide sniffing dogs, perhaps?
The US government, as it now stands, is incapable of defending its citizens from such an impending attack. The people who use the subways system of NYC are sitting ducks just like the ones I used to knock down in the shooting Galleries with a .22 caliber rifle along the boardwalk in Asbury Park NJ. Easy pickins, as we used to say. Imagine that, using live ammo along the boardwalk in the early 60's. My my, where were the anti-gun lobbyists back then? :rolleyes:
I certainly don't have the answers on how to protect the American citizens from the certain attack that is sure to come, but I do know two things; it can't come at the expense of the BOR, and it is the duty and responsibility of the US government to devise Constitutional ways to protect its citizens from attack by foreign invasions. See Article 1 Section 8.
NB. Sorry for the typo in my original post that was copied and pasted by Os. I really do know how to spell "reactionary".
