Shadrach Wrote:What do you think the biggest threat is to our national security?
The fact that you have officially entered into the state of "permanent war" (well it was said "against terrorism").
Anyhow terrorism is not an enemy it's a mean that groups may use to instigate terror.
So now declaring war on "terror" is saying something like "We now announce that we are ready to attack anyone who may enter into the *terror* category".
Moreover this state of permanent war, creates a huge risk on your civil liberties; because we all know that during a war certain things aren't questionned anymore.
For example :
"we are going to wiretap without needs of any warrant from now"
"this is a terrible decision for the liberties, who are you going to monitor and why ?"
"why are you upset, if you have made nothing you aren't going to have any trouble"
"but still government should respect my intimacy sphere"
"again why are you questionning this act, we are in a war, a war against terror. We are going to take any measure not to have a 9/11 again"
"Don't you realize that even the best tools could be used in the most machiavelic ways ?"
"If you hate your country you can just go away, are you anti-patriotic ? your questionnings makes me thinking that you are maybe a danger to our nation !"
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THIS is the real danger.
War and peace are two different things; and you don't prepare the peace the very same way you prepare a war.
(that was the boring message of the day)