Little terrorist or big pedophile?

[sperrico87]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

sperrico87 said:

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

It's routines, after all. You never know how terrorists plan to hijack their next plane!


Sadly, integrity has to be sacrificed to maintain safety. There's no other way.

If this is true, then the terrorists have already won, and we might as well pack it in. Game over.

Their whole purpose for 9/11 was to scare people into voting for authoriatarians and turning America into a police state, destroying us from the inside.  They have us right where they want us, mired in the Middle East with no purpose, and they have us right where they want us here, destroying ourselves within our own borders from the inside out.

What the fuck are you talking about?  Firstly, "we" are leaving the Middle East.  Secondly, how would minimizing the security make us less vulerable to terrorists?  "We" are not destroying ourselves within our borders; we are defending ourselves.   The more effort, the less casualties.

Absolutely wrong.  Have you read at all about the reasons for the attack on 9/11?  We had bases on the Muslim Holy Lands, and we kept interjecting into other nation's internal affairs.  Without being asked to.  We created the problem of them wanting to come here in the first place.  If you don't realize that, then you can't begin to understand how to resolve this.

And, no, we are not leaving the Middle East.  I have no idea where you're getting that from.  We have bases all over the place over there.  And when we pulled most of the combat brigades out of Iraq last year (for purely political reasons) we replaced them all with DoD contractors, who by the way, cost MORE than combat troops. 

I would argue that there is a big difference between defending ourselves and overreacting to something that our government's policies caused in the first place.  And private airport security NOT run by bureaucrats would do a much better job with safety, and they would do it without destroying the 4th amendment.