UM, are you really so scared of terrorists that you are willing to compromise the most basic human rights and every principle that this country should stand for just to feel a little safer? I think any one of our odds of being killed in traffic are much, much greater than a terrorist ever getting us. It's just not something I worry about a lot. Yes, a horrible thing happened, but they got really lucky, we were really stupid, and they are obviously so incompetent they really aren't much of a danger.

They are nothing but primitives who happen to be sitting on something that makes us want to deal with them and give them huge sums of money. If they didn't have oil, they would have nothing. If we put all the resources into alternative energy that we've spent on the stupid wars and "Homeland Security"*, they would go back to being nothing but starving nomads living on piles of sand and useless goo, begging us for food, and they'd go back to being more concerned with killing each other than us.

A little off topic maybe; but relevant, I think. I just don't feel like they are enough of a threat to compromise on something like torturing people. I think all the fear-spreading is a tactic of politicians. They might get lucky once in a great while, but overall the danger is minimal to any individual person.


*Which is a joke; did you see the latest statistics about the tests of airline security--bombs getting thru like 50-75% of the time? I know from personal experience if I forget to take a knife out of my purse, I can get on the plane no problem, but they are really worried about my lip gloss and mascara for some incomprehensible reason. Bunch of fucking retards.)