[the irate magistrate]

I hope that these government agencies are reigned in, "in protecing liberty", to only "round up" the real terrorists.

Is the genie out of the bottle here?

I wonder what would have happened while [Jan "the man" Reno] was still in power?

[gcruse]

Well, if I thought "Break the door down, confiscate the porn" Republicans were any more enamored of liberty that "Break the door down, confiscate the guns" Democrats, I might have some speculation for you. Unfortunately, I don't.

[pocat]

Very powerful writing. One of the best posts in recent memory.

(I'll add a "2001 update" to this when the time is appropriate.)

[forest]

Abhor the thought. C2G (Clinton, Clinton and Gore)plus Reno would have spelled the end.

[Doug Fiedor]

There is some very firm information that is known to many public officials but has not yet been made public for some reason.

Many times we (me included) harangue government agents for what appears to be overreacting. Last Tuesday was not one such time. The swift actions of federal officials and federal police last Tuesday were nothing short of heroic. When the full story comes out, the direction and expert leadership of the Bush Administration will eventually be chronicled in the annals of history as immediate emergency actions that saved many thousands of American lives.

A government source who is very much in the know, who prefers to remain anonymous at this time, indicated that there were actually twenty teams of hijackers ready to act last Tuesday. That only four of the teams got off the ground was because the federal government suspended all flights around the country. The four early flights got off the ground. The others did not.

No one yet knows for sure the targets of these other hijacking operations. But, we must assume that they were all similarly high-visibility targets, as were the three hijacked aircraft that hit buildings. Which means, many, many thousands more Americans were targeted for death.

Therefore, we must give credit where credit is due. Under the Bush Administration, the FBI and FAA acted immediately and decisively in quickly suspending all air traffic throughout the country -- very heroic actions for bureaucrats to take in our Constitutional Republic where Liberty is prized.

In this case, the faceless bureaucracy worked perfectly. We owe them our gratitude for saving countless thousands of American lives by their swift and decisive action. In truth, a few thousand Americans probably own them their lives.