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May 4, 2011
Osama bin Laden's Revenge
Topics: Political News and commentariesRandall Holcomb writes:
... we disrobe at TSA checkpoints, and don't carry dangerous items like mouthwash and shampoo, remaining compliant because most people think this makes us safer.And then our president adds to it by caving-in to Muslim rage as though a photo of bin Laden's dead body can make Mohammad's followers any more enraged than they've been for centuries.The damage al Qaeda's attack caused when it destroyed the World Trade Center was about $10 billion (not including the substantial cost in terms of human life). Meanwhile, the TSA's annual budget is $6.3 billion, so we're spending more than half the cost of the destruction of the World Trade Center every year to protect ourselves from another attack. Clearly, the bulk of the cost of the September 11, 2001 attack has come in terms of the costs we have incurred since that day, not the cost of the actual destruction from the attack. That is bin Laden's revenge.
Part of bin Laden's revenge comes in the form of the monetary cost, and part comes in the form of our ready acceptance of our loss of liberty. Our Constitution says, "The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated ... but upon probable cause." Yet everyone who takes an airline flight undergoes such a search, with no probable cause. The TSA has yet to discover anyone at any checkpoint poised to undertake any terrorist activity.
Yes, there was the financial cost and loss of life, but perhaps a bigger victory, and an on-going one, for bin Laden, is the undermining of our constitutional rights. ...
Posted by Hyscience at May 4, 2011 2:24 PM
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