I agree with most everything in your post #18. However,...
Let’s say the Chinese government ordered a deliberate attack on several buses full of American tourists, killing 300. Should we ignore it because, after all, more Americans are killed on our highways every year?
Or if the Mexican federales started sniping at our soldiers guarding the border, killing 14, should we ignore it because, after all, more Americans die falling off ladders cleaning the leaves out of their rain gutters?
Numbers don’t make decisions for us, nor should they. And, as Mark Twain was telling us, trying to make decisions based on numbers alone is the worst of the worst.
I don’t like these illegal “security measures” any more than you do. But we’ve got to be smart, and not hand the tyrants an easy defense for their tyranny.
If I had the chance to ask Janet Neapolitan a question on live TV, it would be this: “Is it possible to make air travel safe AND abide by the Constitution? Or are you asking the American people to choose between the Constitution and the protection you offer?”
That is a different situation and calls for a response as a prelude to possible war.
Evidently what I wrote you didn’t quite get. What I was pointing out is that we are spending 10’s of not Hundreds of Billions of dollars on security measures that far outstrip the threat.
Do we need reasonable precautionary measures, Yes we do. Do we need to go overboard using possible terrorist activity as an excuse to create a Police State Atmosphere where U.S. Citizens are monitored?
The latest from Big Sis is that DHS is contemplating expanding The TSA to all manner of Public Transportation and Cruise Ships.
So my Friend where does it end?
Does it end when we are all implanted with GPS Microchips so we are monitored 24/7?
See it is beyond the Terrorist Threat, it's all about control and more control.
We The People are allowing our fears to now be manipulated to be out worst nightmare to justify more intrusion by the Federal Government all in the name of Safety which cannot be guaranteed.
Do you not think that Terrorists cannot get any type of Bomb aboard any plane they want?
Also lets think where is began, the Underwear Bomber, he was on a No Fly List, without a Passport or Visa and yet someone over road all of this and let him on that plane.
Now either that person was paid, he was sympathtic to the cause, or even worse it was deliberate by forces in our own Government so that we are now at this point.
You take your choice and none of this has been answered.
So you see we have been led down the road and you, me and the rest of the Sheeple have let it happen.