[alpowolf]

Paranoia? If you want to hear paranoia listen to some of the conservatives on FR. I've read calls (on other threads)for rationing (even though there is no shortage of any important goods), blackouts (whatever for? Didn't you notice that the attacks took place in broad daylight?), checkpoints, and on and on. They cry that this will make us "safe". The government that can't teach children to read, make us safe? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think it's time to calm down. We shouldn't have a "Department of Homeland Security" for the simple reason that we don't need one. We don't need to censor the Internet or give the FBI carte blanche. We can fight, and fight hard and well, without going nuts.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Don't label all those that call for that as "conservatives"...there are quite a few libs calling for the same and even more!

[Nuke'm Glowing]

And yes, I find the paranoia on both sides of the aisle, frightening but amusing...

[snorkeler]

I've read calls (on other threads)for rationing (even though there is no shortage of any important goods),

On an e-list to which I belong, people were screaming about the islolated cases of gas pricing being doubled on day two. Demanding rationing! The story (unconfirmed) of a local sheriff "getting in his face" ie. physically intimmidating one station owner into setting the price at the level the sheriff thought it should be! And the people cheered!!! So a local elected politican usurped the right to set the price for a private businessman and it was just fine and dandy..... I'm not defending the scumbuckets who tried to take advantage of the situation, but faced with such a power grab by a local pol, I'd have to stand with the scumbucket.