Originally Posted by Bart
Not once, in any of my 1500+ posts have I ever advocated curtailing anyone's rights or privacy as a way of gaining security. Disappointed in your comment; this ends the discussion; it is going nowhere.
I didn't say you did.
You said the government would have been paralyzed from taking any "significant actions." What I said was that the only "significant action" that I could imagine the public being up in arms about was massive curtailments of privacy or freedom.
Even pre-9/11 I don't think the public would have been up in arms about the government taking significant actions such as arresting terrorists or telling the airlines about the specific planes-as-missiles threat.