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Posted by American Pig on Wed Mar 15 21:27:23 2006, in response to Re: It's now official - New York is doomed, posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Mar 15 21:11:05 2006. Just in the 20th century, the United States made it through two world wars, two other major wars, and the Cold War, all without needing anything like the DHS. But now we're all piddling our panties in fear of the Towel Heads, so all of a sudden we need this agency. Yet we got along fine without it when the nation faced far GREATER threats.So? If it ain't broke, don't mean it doesn't need improvin' As abstract as the War on Terror may be, the United States lost it when we totally capitulated to fear. I gotta agree with you here on the fear issue, but not on that caused us to lose the war on terror. The "War on Terror" is an instrument of fear, if there was no fear, there would be no war on terror. As for fear as a means of maintaining power, that surely is true with respect to paranoia on the government level, e.g. transit photo bans. But it doesn't explain paranoia on the private level, e.g. turnstiles in office building lobbies. Building owners can be afraid too. |
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