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Originally Posted by The silenced majority  Let's not forget why 9/11 happened. I'm not talking about the motivations for the terrorists that and talk like that which is debated ad nausea on forums like these; I feel both sides of that issue have valid points.
I'm talking about how the terrorist act of 9/11/2001 was pulled off so easily. We've now spent billions of dollars on a war, when the first shot was fired with a box-cutter. IMO, 9/11 happened because of a climate of tort abuse and Political Correctness. Political Correctness backed by corrupt lawyers who take on cases like the flying Imams have this country so crippled and the people completely unable to discriminate rationally. It's what prevented the screeners from stopping the 19 hijackers on 9-11. I'm not suggesting that outright discrimination of Arabic looking people is the solution, I'm not suggesting that looking at our current world with psychological blinders on is a good idea either. People need to rationally look for ways to prevent a disaster like 9-11 from be carried out again.
I can only conclude that those who supported the ridiculous pulling of this provision must be eager to see it happen again. |
And I completely agree with this sentiment, but you have to see the other side of it. We are better than our enemy for a number of reasons, but one of them is we're not a bunch of dickheads to blindly screw people over because they don't look or act how we arbitrarily want them to. Yeah, I don't worry about you and how you'd handle the ability to report suspicious activity, but I am certain that you and I both know the type of ignorant hicks who see a couple arabs speaking arabic while having a meal and will call the FBI, and the implication of such a law is that those people who end up getting consistently dicked around because of stupid mother****ers who don't understand that speaking arabic is not sufficient reason to suspect someone of being a terrorist.