What truly scares me is what's going to happen next time there's a big event.

It is absolutely mind-boggling how 9-11 has been used to pry into nearly every corner of our lives 'out of an abundance of caution'.

Think about our starting point on 9-10-01 and look where we are ten years later.

Now imagine where we are now as a starting point if/when there's another big event.

Read up sometime about the implications of the former 'color code' system. IIRC, if a code 'red' had ever been declared, I think we would have been confined to our homes and all travel would have been shut down. It sounded eerily similar to martial law.