Different war called the WOD. I remember when there was no such thing at the concerts I went to. Call it indoctrination. Remember the Weathermen and Black Panthers in the 70's? I remember the shootouts (PLA) and bombs being planted around the country at post offices and other govt buildings. Just think about it. This is "feel good" security just like the NG patroling the airport terminals after 9-11. You want to feel safe then stay at home. I prefer to keep what little libery we have. I remember visiting East Germany when I was very young and and it stuck with me.
No actually, completely un-war related. That was during the era when Guns n Roses were having 1 riot per tour and venue managers were getting paranoid, it only happened at heavy metal concerts nobody was worried about the easy listening crowd. It's not feel good security, it's NFL paranoia, they know terrorists like lots of blood, they know they have around 75,000 innocent victims in attendance at most events, they know somebody already tried to blow up a college football game, they don't want a day that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons named after one of their teams.
It's not about whether or not I feel safwe it's about you lying about what this is about, it's about the idiots that say security is a bad thing, it's about the morons that draw parallels between reasonable and intelligent security and Eastern Bloc totalitarianism. All your parallels are FALSE parallels.
Ever wonder why they were there?