>I actually think this is healthy, since there is very little that "caused"
>or could have prevented folks willing to prepare for years to use boxcutters
>to take over airplanes, then kill themselves in using them as airborne
>weapons. Oh sure, folks will find some way to close this particular barn
>now that the horse has gotten out, but there is no way to create a security
>system with no holes that can never be exploited by those willing to kill
>themselves using them.
>
>If people would deal with this basic reality of vulnerability, we might be
>able to back people off their kneejerk support for cutting back civil
>liberties in the vain hope of absolute security.
I don't get this reasoning at all. If there's no "cause," then it would make good sense, if seucrity were your goal, to cut back civil liberties. If you identify a cause, then there's some hope for civil liberties.
Besides, if there's no "cause," then why did it happen? Human evil?
Doug