Steve was heard muttering to Paul Nixon 
 about Terror 
 SG> Did you see the Deep Space 9 episode where the Changelings were
 I don't seem to be able to catch DS9 on a consistant basis...
 SG> attacking  Earth? That was essentially the point of the episode. If you
 SG> do all the  sweeps and stuff - especially out of proportion to the
 SG> actual threat -  then the terrorists have won. That's not what their
 SG> hypothetical Earth of  the future - or our country now - is about.
 Agreed.
 We've had how many of these things in the past?  We've had how many
 people killed?  Ten or so years ago there were over thirty thousand
 takeoffs per day.  (Most days the same number of landings )  Now
 that figure has to be much higher today...how many get blown out of the
 sky?  Is this going to degenerate into another "if it saves one life"
 whine?  Or will we see politicritters making more laws...that will have
 zero effect?
 We're allowing ourselves to be whipped into a frenzy by the press.
 I'm gonna suggest that the threat isn't such that we have to hunker
 in the bunker.
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