[NYCVirago]

It's incredible, as an American, to watch as so many of my fellow citizens openly talk of torture and truth serums, sneak and peek, secret trials with secret evidence and other Soviet atrocities as being necessary for the survival of our freedom.

Let me comment on one thing here -- the "secret trials with secret evidence" comments. We treated the attack on the WTC in 1993 as a crime, not an act of war. We put the terrorists on trial. All sorts of evidence about the structure of the WTC, what forces the building was capable of withstanding, etc. was used as evidence. This very information about the WTC was used by the terrorists in planning their 9/11 attack! Let's not be so stupid as to have another situation like this happen again.

[Concentrate]

Let me comment on one thing here -- the "secret trials with secret evidence" comments. We treated the attack on the WTC in 1993 as a crime, not an act of war. We put the terrorists on trial. All sorts of evidence about the structure of the WTC, what forces the building was capable of withstanding, etc. was used as evidence. This very information about the WTC was used by the terrorists in planning their 9/11 attack! Let's not be so stupid as to have another situation like this happen again.

This comment of yours has really stuck in my head, court records being public and all. It's an outstanding post! In fact, why don't we just give the enemy all the information they need to destroy us? We could set up a massive international information system that any whacko anywhere in the world can tap into to learn all kinds of specifications and techniques for massive destruction they otherwise wouldn't know.

Oh. It's been done already. Your tax dollars at work, BTW.