As for new "intrusions" into my rights and life? I don't care if they want to search me 5 times at the airport, establish regulations for purchasing products, increase paperwork required for anything from the License Branch, to Travel, to buying a box of Twinkies. I'm more than wiling to do that and more. I have nothing to hide, ask away and do what you have to do to keep us all a little safer... Or a LOT safer. Those who resist, claiming "infringement" need to check themselves - are you really Americans?
The goal of terrorism is to cause terror which creates change through fear-based acts. Your talk is tough, but your actions, or the actions you support, are based in fear. The terrorists have won this battle. The only way we could have won this was to not have tossed the Constitution aside, but rather stood tall and said "This changes nothing. We will maintain our freedoms and way of life as the defenders of freedom." Instead, while we sent the troops to hunt them down over seas we took a red pen, with a shaky hand, to the Constitution at home and with every mark said, "Never again, dear God no, never again."
Do you think Washinton, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc would have opposed, say, strict harbor regulations if a foreign land had killed people by sea in an equally horrific event during their time?
This isn't Lincoln, but the rest wrote a Constitution to prevent our government from doing that sort of thing, and the things we are doing now, to their own citizens, signed it, and then later added a list of ten guarantees against it. And we have symbolically destroyed that document these last 11 years.
Talk about TSA all you want, but please address Americans (Bradley Manning) held for over a year without charges and forced to endure what has since been determined to be equal to torture. Address the president being allowed to assassinate American citizens with no charges and no warrants. Address that you will soon have thousands of drones patrolling over your house, and who knows what the operator, hundreds of miles away, may see in your daughter's bedroom window.
Airport security has always been a pain, but the fact that 9/11 means my having a pacemaker means instead of being wanded as an alternative to the, dangerous to me, metal detector I must go through a full body pat down, is unacceptable. I didn't change in any way to make me suspect. This country just became full of fear.
The documentary Loose Change:
Is that the same one that tries linking it back to an old Christian conspiracy by showing that the group behind it use the sun as their symbol and show the son/sun correlation, forgetting that the language spoken back then has no similarities between the two words?
Anyway, it is weak. I don't doubt security agencies were covering their butts by hiding stuff, but they weren't hiding a secret behind who did it.
