[A CA Guy]

Nobody can guarantee anything, but without security attempts, more 9/11 type events will happen than possible with security.

We live in different times now. It's not our fault, but we have to respond appropriately. Going about every day like nothing ever happened while there are groups that want us all dead doesn't make for an easy future in ANY event.

[AFPhys]

If even one terror promoting islamofacist becomes ensnared by our Justice Department as a result of the Patriot Act, and successors to it, I will support is wholeheartedly.

[Jhoffa_]

We live in different times now. It's not our fault, but we have to respond appropriately. Going about every day like nothing ever happened while there are groups that want us all dead doesn't make for an easy future in ANY event.

I don't want to argue with you, but to me it's the exact same times.. only the people have changed. I don't see the WTC as our reichstag fire.

I will take my chances with the terrorists because if you think about it they got 3000 people, and it was our own fault. We had people here who were supposed to be going to college who weren't, we had people wanting to only take off in commercial aircraft, we had no background checks going on for airport personell.. The INS has become the welcome wagon.

It's shameful, but I am not willing to shred the constitution over it. There's risk in everything you do from bording a plane to going to the grocery store.

Even in a virtual police state like Israel people still aren't safe. So there's no way tossing away our right's and liberties will save us here.

IMO, our best course of action is to just make the price of terrorism so incredibly high that it becomes akin to kicking a sleeping tiger.

Sure.. you can do it, but guess what happens next?