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Post by Fran Gyomory on Oct 15, 2007 10:39:25 GMT -5
I thought it wasn't over until the fat lady sings!!!!!! NAZI, never!!!! Wait, do I hear a fat lady singing? Nah, it was just in my head !
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2007 11:14:29 GMT -5
<Sending a brick your way too...> Oh, I absolutely agree Terrorism is a major threat and should be dealt with smartly, but sometimes the solutions are more damaging than the original threat... Too many times, the solution goes way too far... Sometimes I think the terrorists know this and intentionally set up a threat to watch the US go overboard in their reaction and take more of their people's general freedom away. Think about the email that goes around every so often (and is posted here frequently) about how great it was in the old days... Where things we took for granted back then (along the lines of kids cutting themselves used to require iodine and a bandaid, now requires a hospital trip with 20 medical tests and a visit to a lawyer to see if you can sue the place the cut happened at)... The way it got so bad is people overreacting because god forbid they didn't cover EVERY possible scenario.. To ridiculously overstress the point, this is why we didn't have flying cars in the year 2000... I believe they could be a reality, but the legal liabilities that would exist if you put a flying car in the hands of the public would be completely outrageous... We have cars that can park themselves now, I think we could have accomodated flying cars if it was profitable.. Getting back on topic, protecting against Terrorism is VERY important... But when a random body cavity search at the airport is not that far off reality, we took things too far... And that has ruined our quality of life more than the terrorists have...
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Post by pegleg on Oct 17, 2007 1:34:46 GMT -5
But when a random body cavity search at the airport is not that far off reality, we took things too far... Now WAIT just a second!!! That's the only fun some of us have today!!!! True. They have degraded our quality of life. But the alternatives are too difficult to contemplate. I HATE having to remove my shoes at the airport. I always seem to have mismatched, and holey, socks on that day (I tell the security folks that it's for religious reasons). But after seeing the tricks that these suicide murderers are willing to try, it doesn't matter too much, to me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2007 10:12:36 GMT -5
LOL!!!
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