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Old Mar 17, 2010, 9:28 pm
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LuvAirFrance
 
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Originally Posted by halls120
Your entire Department is guilty of an abuse of the public trust. You maintain a "heightened" state of alert solely because it permits you to scare the general public into believing that it's OK to sacrifice some of our rights in exchange for the illusion of greater security.

50 years from now, people are going to shake their heads in disbelief regarding how we gave the terrorists a victory with the creation of DHS.
Reminds me of the Palmer Raids and McCarthyism. Times when government was able to fan the flames of paranoia and then act like a dictatorship.
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