[NewHampshireDuo]

Exaggerate the threat, scare people and before you know it we’ll have TSA checkpoints and military patrols across the USA. All for nothing except control (of us).

[Terry Mross]

You hit the nail on the head. The majority of Americans will say they don’t mind being checked out by the military as long as it keeps them safe. We’ve become a nation of pansies.

[AuntB]

“Exaggerate the threat, scare people and before you know it we’ll have TSA checkpoints and military patrols across the USA. All for nothing except control (of us).”

You think the threat is exaggerated? Hell, we don’t have ‘checkpoints’ at the border! That’s what we need, and every one trying to come in gets bounced back! Hard! So they remember next time. “They” won’t need to control ‘US’...all the foreign terrorists/cartels are going to kill us first!

Do you understand they’ve been using IEDs along the border for quite some time? Do you understand that Mexico has the deadliest city in the WORLD...that more beheadings and murder of journalists happen in Mexico than anywhere? Do you understand that ANYONE can come over that border and stay here UNquestioned??

It’s up to US to see that these elected jack asses enforce the laws instead of forcing all of us into some TSA dance!
We need to vote out all of them that refuse to close that border, and that includes the traitors in the GOP..and that is MOST of ‘em.

Example..

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California Iraqi-Mexican crime ring busted, police say
Thu Aug 18 20:08:59 2011 · by Whats the Matter with Kansas? · 75 replies
Reuters ^ | August 18,2011 | Reporting by Tim Gaynor; Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis and Peter Bohan
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police in southern California have arrested 60 people and broken up an Iraqi criminal ring accused of selling drugs, machine guns and improvised bombs out of an immigrant social club, authorities said on Thursday. The swoop by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and local police targeted a network operating out of El Cajon, which is near San Diego and close to the border with Mexico.

[PowderMonkey]

"Exaggerate the threat, scare people and before you know it we’ll have TSA checkpoints and military patrols across the USA. All for nothing except control (of us)."

Bingo. We've been hearing about this since the 1980s. A time when it was open season on any Americans wherever found. When I inquired back in those days with some unsavory characters I encountered overseas as to why we in America hadn't seen the kidnappings, shootings, and car bombs witnessed all across Europe, they told me it's because somebody may be a Palestinian terrorist, but he has an uncle Ahmed who owns a cab company in Milwaukee, and sends money back home. Somebody may be a Greek terrorist, but his brother Harlambos owns a chain of Greek restaurants in New Jersey. It's because America is where all the money and support comes from. It's where everybody's successful relative has moved to. Despite political and ideological differences, America was still seen as the land of opportunity. Nobody wanted to screw that up. Well, except for the screwy Mohamedans who wrecked it for everybody on 9/11. But that was a one trick pony. Nothing like it has been done since.

[PGR88]

Exaggerate the threat, scare people and before you know it we’ll have TSA checkpoints and military patrols across the USA. All for nothing except control (of us).

I thought the same thing. If one IED blew up on interstate 95, many people would clamor to have the Gov't take away their rights to free travel, and for DHS to monitor every move people make in an automobile.

[MCF]

That is what this is all about.

[bgill]

There was a big order for bullet proof checkpoint booths a few months ago.

[QT3.14]

Exaggerate the threat, scare people and before you know it
we’ll have TSA checkpoints and military patrols across the
USA. All for nothing except control (of us).

That was figured out long ago:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.

~ H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) Journalist – magazine editor