This is a perfect example of how deranged our society has become. If you would do a little reading of history, you would find that government loves things like 9/11. In the 30′s, FDR literally kept the “crisis” of the depression going for more than 10 years; if he had backed away we would have recovered like the rest of the world. The same thing is being played out now. Don’t you think that if the terrorist wanted they could easily repeat another 9/11 or other damage? The airport security is a joke, wake up and realize this. There is nothing in this world that you can do to stop a sophisticated group of terrorist bent on doing their job!
Besides, if some nut did harm, what is worse; the death of people given to support our freedoms or giving up our freedoms because of constant fear. What is the purpose of the military dying if we are not willing and brave enough to do the same? My fellow Americans disgust me with their hyped up concerns for “security” and the fact they don’t understand the loss of freedom we experience.
Now I truly feel that travelers’ heart rates go up at the airport. The whole experience is one tailored to make you paranoid. We have mouth breathers at security post and wielding guns who have no idea what they are doing but armed and ready to inflict injury with minimal provocation. We have airline employees who are rude, inconsiderate and looking for an excuse to us the punitive powers they have received from the government. Most of the planes look as if they will fall out of the sky and you know that every effort is being made to delay the flight and cause excessive frustration.
We need to remember that terrorism is a weapon. We need to concentrate on killing those that use that weapon and not rebuilding their countries at our expense or going about the hopeless task of making them democracies (especially when we have forgotten what one is). This woman was killed by the police as sure as if they had fired a gun, and for what? She created a disturbance because she had experienced enough of the abuse. My only hope is that with the economic crisis that is to occur in the next few years, my country -the South- will be able to seek its freedom once again.
