[QUOTE=bocastephen]This program was one of the worst affronts to our way of life...it, and the various evil spawn programs that grew from it have been the target of countless lawsuits, illegal asset seizures, false arrests and imprisonments, and other acts of anti-American behavior by the government and police. To use this as a model for monitoring Americans at airports and other places is something I find both dumbfounding and reckless.

worse than the affect crack has had on our cities and underclass? it might have cost some innocent civillians a few minutes out of there busy day, but it saved countless lives.

so, let me try to understand your idea... we just ignore any threats from terror, eat a few thousand dead a year, adn get on with our lives. or did you have some alternative concept how we could keep things running smoothly.

and, please, understand, I agree that the actual threat of a highjcking is tiny and doen'st worry me at all, but what I am not willing to accept is that a few days a year the skies will close down, or that I won't be able to get goods from place to place, or that the economy will have to take the bite that there attacks bring with them.