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Global_Hi_Flyer Sep 17, 2006 11:41 am

A newspaper columnist that gets it....
 
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...h.20e8b20.html


...However, today it is an axiom that the deadliest effect may be not what terrorists do to society, but what society does to itself out of fear.

I think this is happening to us. We spend billions on preventive measures, none of which has caught a terrorist, when our major goal should be their identification and extermination.
....
Meanwhile, our so-called flight security here in America is purely reactive....
.... All reactive, all passive, all as if choreographed by Osama and his pals.

Points Scrounger Sep 17, 2006 12:19 pm

I'm really liking this guy a lot! ^

rexb Sep 17, 2006 6:41 pm


Originally Posted by Points Scrounger
I'm really liking this guy a lot! ^

Hear, hear!

MileageAddict Sep 17, 2006 7:10 pm

A voice of sanity. Thank you for posting the link. ^

osxanalyst Sep 17, 2006 9:18 pm


Originally Posted by MileageAddict
A voice of sanity. Thank you for posting the link. ^

Of course! He's from Texas...

rexb Sep 17, 2006 10:51 pm

For what it's worth, the September 16 column is part two of two.

Part one:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...h.19ed3b0.html


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