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Old Jan 11, 2005 | 10:50 am
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Originally Posted by speedbird001
Shortly after 9/11, Thomas Friedman wrote in The New York Times something like " The terrorists are sitting there laughing at us. They blew up our buildings and our response was to take knives off airplanes and eliminate curbside check in".
I agreed with Freidman at the time, and still strongly agree.

Small-minded people like Norm Mineta had to do "something," and do something they did.

Of course, it had nothing to do with preventing a repeat, but many American sheople went along with it.

Too bad so many people are so stupid.

Who was it who said something to the effect of: "Think how stupid the AVERAGE person is. Now just consider that half of the citizens are even more stupid"?
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