Jose wrote:
So on one hand we have organized gangs with a demonstrated ability of
killing thousands of civilians at a time and a strongly stated desire
of killing hundreds of thousands and on the other hand we have
embezzlers, welfare cheats, etc.

If you look really hard Jose, you may be able to dimly make out a
substantive distinction.


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Yes, =I= can make that distinction. However I do not trust our
government to do so. I have personally been on the wrong end of a
machine gun for insisting (politely) that my film be hand inspected at
LGA rather than run through the X-ray machine.

I'm impressed. I go through LGA, DCA, IAD and other airports several
times a month; have not seen TSA pulling pulling machine guns at all,
much less during polite discussion.

We are doing =far= more damage to ourselves than the terrorists ever did.

Well, the terrorists have killed several thousand of us and want to kill
as many as they can get to. Unless TSA has been mass murdering
travelers with their metal detector wands I presume you are referring to
damage to your ego.

It *is* quite necessary to make sure that law enforcement is held
accountable for any unreasonable treatment whether it is force during
arrest or searching someone they should not. Having said that, the
current mindlessly PC driven policies prevent focusing on more likely
killers is going to get people killed.