[Eighth Square]

Continuing this line of thought and knowing that this country is easily penetrated, I am constantly amazed at the civil liberties/privacy rights crowd who are standing in the way of meaningful undercover snooping. Combine their "twittering" with the generally poor security we have in place at some of the most sensitive sites in the country and you have a prescription for disaster. If even one of these 10 megaton babies cooks off, you won't have to worry about your privacy, or your stocks, or your checking account, 'cos in the resulting economic disruption that is sure to follow, your main concern may be in finding the food that you will need to live.

[Paleo Conservative]

If even one of these 10 megaton babies cooks off,

I seriously doubt they'd have any thermonuclear weapons. They are more likely to have something in the 10-20 kiloton range.

[Indie]

Continuing this line of thought and knowing that this country is easily penetrated, I am constantly amazed at the civil liberties/privacy rights crowd who are standing in the way of meaningful undercover snooping.

Your point is taken; however, most protest the HYPOCRISY of all the snooping whilst allowing the border to remain a sieve. It's easy to see why someone would think the snooping is on our own folks.

[NJ_gent]

"Continuing this line of thought and knowing that this country is easily penetrated, I am constantly amazed at the civil liberties/privacy rights crowd who are standing in the way of meaningful undercover snooping."

Replacing this country's liberty-driven culture with a fascist-controlled police state is not the answer to security problems. Securing our borders and coastline, which no one has even proposed doing thus far, goes a lot further toward providing actual security for the people of this country than any Soviet-style police action ever can, will, or could.

Last I checked, New Hampshire's state motto didn't read, "I'll do anything, just please don't let them hurt me".