[Byron_the_Aussie]

..Ok Byron, if it will make you happy, be a rebel...queue up for the damn toilet! Sheesh!...

Well, I know I'm getting a bit bombastic, here. But what is it with all these posters who'll gratefully accept any nanny state stupidity that comes down the pipe? "Please sir, may I have another?" I've spent the Christmas break reading some shattering books on tyranny- Richard and Sabrina Wurmbrands' accounts, and Anne Applebaum's Gulag, amongst others. Not to draw too long a bow, but this 'the state is always right' mantra is how it all starts.

Not to mention the cost. Three hundred and fifty billion dollars, for crying out loud. Imagine if one-one hundredth of that had been spent showing the Afghans, for instance, the benefits of our way of life. Free enterprise, individual and property rights, and dare I say it, Christian values. Imagine if we were as keen to promote an enclave of Western-style success somewhere in the Middle East (or Africa) to show the neighbours how it's done?

[WhaddaboutThisOne?]

"Well, I know I'm getting a bit bombastic, here. But what is it with all these posters who'll gratefully accept any nanny state stupidity that comes down the pipe? "Please sir, may I have another?" I've spent the Christmas break reading some shattering books on tyranny- Richard and Sabrina Wurmbrands' accounts, and Anne Applebaum's Gulag, amongst others. Not to draw too long a bow, but this 'the state is always right' mantra is how it all starts. "

Thumbs up to you, Byron.

The majority of the security measures that have been implemented at airports since 9/11 have been merely cosmetic, to look as if something's changed. Bull pucky. What good do measures such as making some lady drink her own bottle of expressed breastmilk in order to show that it's not some deadly substance do, when you can drive within 200 feet of an international jet being loaded up, and get even closer if you have a pair of wire cutters?

I can already hear the "Sieg heils!" being shouted in some of the responses here.