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Old Jan 31, 2004, 8:29 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Factotum:
And why do the government, media, and general public all have this fetish fantasy about terrorists crashing planes into crowded stadiums? It's like the TSA and shoe bombs - except the TSA waited until the shoe bomb threat actually became real before acquiring their fixation.

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Security is almost always reactive. Preventing the last attack; fighting the last battle lost.
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