Re:Some serious overreaction. (Score 1)

These guys aren't an enemy like the Germans, the Japanese, or even the Russians were. For a thousand reasons it is simply inappropriate to compare Al Qaeda to any enemy we have known in the past or to suggest we should employ similar tactics in order to defeat them. The most important reason, though, is very simple: They're a couple of loons with bigger aspirations than they have capabilities. The miniscule danger they pose surely does not warrant (no pun intended) the surrender of our privacy and freedom. I'm sure 9/11 scared the crap out of you - it certainly shook me up - but that's no excuse for giving up every last ounce of freedom you've got in exchange for the promise of security. We live in a free country and the price we pay for that freedom is that sometimes it's difficult to track and catch bad guys, because the very nature of freedom requires that bad guys have as much as good guys and vice versa. Maybe you're willing to give up your freedom in order to limit theirs - but I'm sure as hell not, and neither is any other decent, self-respecting American. The only people who are willing to give up their own freedom in exchange for the promise of security are traitors - because they're willing to sell all of us out to the first tyrant who comes along and offers them a bargain. That's not American. That's cowardly, and it's got no place in this country.