That is exactly why I said (I repeat): "We the public have a duty to
choose
which side we want to be on"
Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or no?
We blow on foods hot from the oven to cool them down, yet we blow on
hands cold from exposure to warm them up, and neither act is
inconsistent.
I do not see too great a difference in views between terrorist
sympathisers
and people who constantly accuse antiterrorist security forces of
crying
wolf. But that is my viewpoint.
It is a remarkably black-and-white viewpoint.
I do not see too great a difference in views between "leaders" who
claim their holy ends justify their violent means and "leaders" who
claim their idealistic ends justify their violent means, and hence to
hold that one has no choices except for these is to go beyond being a
sympathizer, approaching being a shill.
If you put yourself in the shoes of a security agency it should be
fairly simple to remember that you are a security agency, not a secrecy
agency, and so you are also free to choose:
3) Airliners are not blown up and you clearly demonstrate which dangers
were averted.*
I would rather that we the public have a duty to substitute cortex for
amygdala. But that is my viewpoint.
-Dave
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* How do meth labs blow up? Any household liquid mixtures involved
there? Why should we have to guess at all this? Something green,
indeed...
