PBS Newshour: Drastic Changes in Airport Security After 9/11 Stir Controversy
Sep 9, 2011, 6:05 pm
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PBS Newshour: Drastic Changes in Airport Security After 9/11 Stir Controversy
Here's the link to a nice segment done by PBS NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden:
PBS Newshour: Drastic Changes in Airport Security After 9/11 Stir Controversy (Air Date: Sept. 8, 2011)
PBS Newshour: Drastic Changes in Airport Security After 9/11 Stir Controversy (Air Date: Sept. 8, 2011)
Sep 10, 2011, 7:14 pm
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The approaching 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has only increased my disgust for the way the government continues to manipulate that tragic event for its own selfish objectives, and how the country at large still hasn't woken up to the reality that they are being subjected to absurd, unnecessary, and in some cases, unconstitutional measures that are, at some point, going to prove to be ultimately futile.
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
Sep 11, 2011, 7:50 am
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The approaching 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has only increased my disgust for the way the government continues to manipulate that tragic event for its own selfish objectives, and how the country at large still hasn't woken up to the reality that they are being subjected to absurd, unnecessary, and in some cases, unconstitutional measures that are, at some point, going to prove to be ultimately futile.
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
Sep 11, 2011, 2:20 pm
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Sep 11, 2011, 2:31 pm
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The approaching 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has only increased my disgust for the way the government continues to manipulate that tragic event for its own selfish objectives, and how the country at large still hasn't woken up to the reality that they are being subjected to absurd, unnecessary, and in some cases, unconstitutional measures that are, at some point, going to prove to be ultimately futile.
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
Sep 11, 2011, 4:57 pm
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The approaching 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has only increased my disgust for the way the government continues to manipulate that tragic event for its own selfish objectives, and how the country at large still hasn't woken up to the reality that they are being subjected to absurd, unnecessary, and in some cases, unconstitutional measures that are, at some point, going to prove to be ultimately futile.
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
Unfortunately, the Washington Post editorial staff disgustingly does not:
There was in fact no large-scale assault on personal freedoms — no equivalent to the Supreme Court-sanctioned roundup of Japanese Americans, no repeat of the Red Scare infringements on freedom of speech and association. The Patriot Act enabled a modest, mostly court-supervised expansion of law enforcement vigilance. When there were excesses in the earliest, most panicked years, there was self-correction, with pushes from within the system (the Justice Department inspector general, for example), from members of Congress of both parties and from unfettered media and public interest groups.
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Sep 11, 2011, 8:05 pm
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The approaching 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has only increased my disgust for the way the government continues to manipulate that tragic event for its own selfish objectives, and how the country at large still hasn't woken up to the reality that they are being subjected to absurd, unnecessary, and in some cases, unconstitutional measures that are, at some point, going to prove to be ultimately futile.
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
There will be another successful terrorist attack against the United States on our soil. All the money (we don't have) in the world, all the misguided efforts notwithstanding, a dedicated terrorist will succeed at some point in the future. 100% security is simply not attainable, and unlike the rest of the developed world, we haven't stopped our quest for that magic silver bullet that doesn't exist. In the meantime, we're spending money on a wide range of wasteful things, ranging from ineffective airport screening devices to apparently unending conflicts overseas, as if it is creating a cocoon of protection.
Unbelieveably sad
Sep 11, 2011, 10:39 pm
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1) Americans would first have to abandon their simplistic, comfortable prejudices, such as "they attacked us because they hate our freedoms," and replace them with more nuanced views admitting that "they" attacked "us" because "we" are killing "them" and their children, and ultimately of course letting go of the whole artificial "they" and "us" distinction.
2) The U.S. would have to stop acting as a terror state itself, and stop supporting terror states -- in other words, replace greed and special interests such as the Israel lobby with actual morality as the basis for its foreign policy.
It's doubtful that a nation founded on slavery and genocide is capable of such actions.
Sep 12, 2011, 1:12 am
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It's doubtful that a nation founded on slavery and genocide is capable of such actions.
Read an article earlier tonight that would get me dumped straight to OMNI if I posted it here, but stated a similar case. I fear for the future of this great nation.