On Tuesday 21 Oct 2008 1:09:18 am Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > "The US had a brief period when terrorist attacks seemed to become > > frequent. But the US security agencies clamped down so effectively > > on the weak spots that were open to misuse by terrorists that the US > > made itself relatively immune to terrorist attacks. > > They clamped down? Really? Not that anyone I know has noticed.
Ah. So you don't really think checking shampoo bottles and random watch lists has anything to do with clamping down on the possiblity of terrorism then? Isn't this what you what you wrote earlier: > You believe that searching > people for shampoo before letting them on airplanes is of critical > importance to society? You think randomly assembled "watch lists" of > names with millions of entries helps us "catch terrorists"? What is it > exactly that makes sense here? shiv
