RE: World Trade Center attack and civil liberties
Posted: 9/16/2001 10:55:34 AM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Strange perspective! I agree with the problem regarding law enforcement considering itself separate from the rest of the population - that seems to be the most insightful comment regarding the behavior of the police I have ever seen.

But I'm not sure what you mean by the rest of the comment as to how it relates to the World Trade Center. We are now in a declared state of war; things are completely different for now. They can make whatever rules they want right now, and most will go long with them, as long as they keep their promise that they are only for wartime. Scary, and I am the first to freak out about overreaching government - in times of peace. But now, we are fighting deception itself - the people who did this won't even claim their actions. We think it is Bin Laden, and we are probably right - if so, it gets even more deceptive as Bin Laden issued a statement today that he had nothing to do with it.

Sure, he may have done it, and so far it looks pretty definite. But what if he DIDN'T? Talk about way scary - someone else could be playing us off each other and feeding the frenzy.

Who else could it be? I've heard nothing else, no other suggestions. Yipes, just yipes...
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