| Look, I recognize the discussion as futile....
What then do you think makes sense as a popular response to the next terror attack?
I'm a Libertarian, generally. Whether PH is right that the whole international thing has been a plot to aggrandize our armed agencies, I hate to see any more tin stars handed out. Its potentially more dangerous than the terrorist acts.
I know PH is from HI, but maybe the rest of you weren't affected by all the bridge and tunnel checkpoints that clogged traffic and hurt the economy. Its so simple to carry out any number of acts of terrorism that this whole situation amounts to carte blanche of hiring, just wait until the next one scares those unmoved by 9/11 so far... Can you imagine living in an armed camp? I've been in Soviet-occupied countries before, and it sucks. Do you know how many yahoos the DHS is just itching to hire? Imagine two armed pimply-faced punks posted on every little bridge 24/7 across every brook on your way to work! Talk about brownshirts! There's too many cops already with that "Domestic Terror" pamphlet as their only understanding of the Bill of Rights, and they're hiring more and more, all with their heads shaved...
Have you forgotten the hysteria in the airports and all the lame shoe-checking and grannies being detained for who knows what? Talk about a transfer of employment into the "public sector" ...
The worst part of those days post 9/11 was how our vaunted congress argued over to which governmental agency the new legions of inspectors would belong... not a concern for their effectiveness, but whose voting bloc the new govt employees would belong in, and to whom they'd owe their allegiance.
Don't be a sleestak |