It was necessary to seize upon the fear and grief and anger of the moment.
The problem with that is, once those liberties are removed due to war time, you face a very good chance of not having them returned to you.
We are being conditioned to accept the fact that this "war" has no termination point. All the press conferences, radio addresses, etc. are flat out telling us to expect that. There will always be fanatical terrorists somewhere in the world, so there will always be a "need" to incrementally reduce liberties in order to "protect" us.
From the article:
Rademaker, 48, the Corporate Protective Services manager who is president of the Detroit security council, has worked as a security consultant for decades and has handled clients including MGM Grand, Comerica Park, the Detroit Institute of Arts and other major venues. He said he was confident Americans would accept the coming changes, in part because they already have been accepting incremental changes for years.
Heart and gut wrenchingly true. And so it goes. I weep for what is gone forever.