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anytime anyone anywhere LOSES any amount of freedom, IT IS ALL BAD
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Well, it's unfortunate yes, but I don't think it's a bad idea to enhance security. Before 9/11 I had the freedom to roam airports at will. I wandered through an international airport with a box knife one day (I'd forgotten I had it). The security guard just made me give him the blade (there were 5 more in the handle). While waiting for my pickup to get there I drank some coffee while sitting across from a door leading to the innards of the airport - Watched employees punch in the combo to open the door until I had it memorized. Would have been VERY easy to get in there. From there, how hard would it be to plant a bomb in some luggage, or steal a maintainence uniform and get onto a plane to place a bomb? Now I no longer have the freedom to wander the airport at will, but I really don't mind.
I no longer have the freedom to carry a 3 inch knife on a plane like I did before 9/11, but I don't mind that either.
Where it gets worrisome is when they start restricting freedoms that have nothing to do with the security of the country, yet they say it does. That's a frightening precedent that we should be howling in protest over.
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It does alot more to take the fight to them and make them sweat then to sit around like a bunch of cowards.
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Well then how about we take it to the REAL terrorist states? Saudi Arabia comes to mind - they're much more active than Iraq was.