Originally Posted by Odysseus
...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.
Sorry, I have to disagree. I am unwilling to surrender my Constitutational values in the name of crack or anything else. If the police can't control the drug problem using traditional police work, that is too bad. I doubt the Founding Fathers would disgree with my opinion. However, I will add that the so-called 'underclass' were the biggest victims of the police profiling and search/seizure efforts. If you want to surrender a few minutes from your busy day, please feel free. I don't and I won't. I was bristling with anger at Janet Reno's anti-Constitutional crusade in the name of the so-called 'drug war' when some of the 9/11 hijackers were getting ready for high school. It wasn't legal back then, nor should it be legal now just because new leaders have pronounced a new 'war'.
How are we 'eating' a few thousand dead a year?? The skies closing a few days a year? Since 9/11, none of these things have occured again, and there is no evidence they will repeat. Millions of lives have been lost to car accidents, disease and other maladies affecting our society, but I still fail to see the same hue and cry to combat these issues as I hear from the 'terror war' corner.
Again....there is no evidence that terrorists are plotting against aviation. Most of the nation's anti-terror focus is on aviation. There is plenty of analysis which states the next terrorist attack will be ground-based in a public venue - yet almost nothing is being done to prepare for that while our attention is still focused on the skies. While everyone continues to huddle in fear while pointing skyward, what will the response be when some nut detonates a few pounds of plastic explosives in a football stadium or shopping mall somewhere?