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well, this is the rub, isn't it? We want our cake (get rid of the terrorists) and to eat it too (our civil liberties). To a certain extent they are mutually exclusive...you want safety (or the appearance thereof), you give up personal freedoms.
Interesting side note: A friend who came to dinner on Saturday got a panicked call from his wife who was in NY. They are both Americans, she travels a lot as a senior VP for an ad company, he does real estate and is an actor. Both white (hell, he's from Texas). His wife just found out she couldn't get on a plane to leave NY since they both now are on the "no-fly list". Something about an incident when they were flying from DFW to LAX. But there wasn't an incident...no report from AA...no nothing. Just materializing on the no-fly list.
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