Originally Posted by rexb
An editorial in the Carnegie Mellon student newspaper, written by a talented young man who was a high school classmate of my daughter...
Missing the bigger picture in security
Transportation Security Administration entangles itself in regulations instead of tackling our real vulnerabilities
Lee Reamsnyder
.....Even more terrorists will be deterred if we don’t make a big deal out of terrorism. Terrorists don’t merely want to blow up airplanes; they want to disrupt our daily lives. Every reactionary TSA regulation, every media frenzy, every pontificating political speech, every time we are manipulated by fear, we are — to use the cliché — letting the terrorists win.....
Lee Reamsnyder is a graduate student in professional writing.
This has happened already. The freedom that we cherish so much, the freedom that our boys in Iraq are defending, is being throttled in the post 9/11 world. George the younger is so busy battling his opponents as he tries to implement his legally questionable counter-terrorism programs, that he fails to appreciate basic reason why this country is so great: the fact his oppenents
CAN criticize him without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or execution for the sole reason of having of opinion. The past five years have led us down the slippery slope. How far will we go in the name of the "war on terror"?
(Ok , I think I can climb down off my soapbox now.)