Jay Honeck wrote:

Welcome to the real world outside the beltline, Ron. Those are
window-dressing, puff-piece things that only a tiny, tiny minority give a
**** about. Adding extra security to a few high-risk targets hardly
translates into a loss of civil rights.

Nonsense. Police in Manhattan are walking their beats with submachine guns now. Every
5th car entering the city is stopped and searched. All trucks are stopped and
searched and are prohibited in much of the city. The owner of one of the HVAC dealers
on Long Island reports that this has cut the number of service calls he can handle in
half (basically destroying his business). He's typical of anyone with a large
vehicle. Commuters now have to allow about an extra hour every day for the security
checks, both on the street and at the office. If you were to drive the purple grape
anywhere around the area, it would be confiscated. Every law against unreasonable
search and siezure that has been passed in the last 30 years is now completely
ignored.

George Patterson
In Idaho, tossing a rattlesnake into a crowded room is felony assault.
In Tennessee, it's evangelism.