Re: NIPC Daily Report, 30 October 2001

From: Toby Kohlenberg (toby@private)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 16:33:01 PST

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    On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Alan wrote:
    
    > On Thursday 01 November 2001 14:54, Toby Kohlenberg wrote:
    > > Why is not allowing me to take nail clippers on an airplane supposed to
    > > make me feel better? It actually makes me feel worse because it just tells
    > > me that the people making the rules don't have a f**king clue what they
    > > are doing and now they are making it impossible to defend myself against
    > > the terrorists they miss because they are too busy worrying about my
    > > grooming tools.
    > 
    > It is the idea that "Something must be done. This is something, therefore we 
    > must do it."
    > 
    > Never is it asked "would this have stopped the original crime?". If that was 
    > done, almost every law named after a famous crime would never have been 
    > enacted.  (When emotions get involved, reason and sanity tend to be turned 
    > off and/or ignored.)
    > 
    > I wonder what they will take away from Americans when terrorists start 
    > shooting down planes from the outside.
    > 
    > I expect that in the near future, Americans will not longer be allowed to 
    > have anything sharper than a rubber ball.  (And the rubber ball will have to 
    > be larger than 1.5" in diameter or someone might choke to death on it.)  
    > Federal agents will be sent to homes to cut up your food and tuck you into 
    > bed at night.  (In order to get the religious right's buy-off, they will also 
    > make you say your prayers.)
    > 
    > Makes you wonder what lawmakers fear more.  Terrorists or American citizens.
    
    Never had any doubt at all- they fear us much more. With good reason-
    terrorists can only kill them at worst. We could take away their power
    (maybe?) and stop letting them play such stupid games with our country.
    
    t
    



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