Today, a plot was disrupted that planned to take down planes flying from the UK to the US in waves. Three planes at a time were targeted by terrorists whose goal was the blow up the planes in mid flight.
The first thing that must be done is to congratulate the security and intelligence forces for taking care of this.
The second this is to insist that we do not surrender any more of our privacy or rights as citizens because of these activities.
By taking away rights, by spying on it's citizens (i.e. us), by ram-rodding things through like national ID cards (which, btw, will have exactly ZERO effectiveness in stopping anything like this), and by generally inciting the citizenry to panic status, we are playing right into the hands of the terrorists. That is exactly what their goal was.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." - Ben Franklin
Don't get me wrong. We need to be proactive about finding these things, and we need to do everything we can WITHIN THE LAW to allow the intelligence community to do this. We should not just accept seizures without warrants and phone taps on everyone just because we're told it is necessary. I say bull. Giving up our freedoms does not make us any safer. It makes us oppressed. By keeping our freedoms, we win the fight. We can kill every terrorist on the planet and there will just be new terrorists. It will never end. Once you give up freedoms though, they never come back. We're currently a frog in a pot of water that is slowly being boiled, and we need to freaking wake up and realize it.
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