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Really...if the FBI profiled these known Christian crazies with 1/100th the attention given to potential muslim crazies then there'd be a lot more arrests made. Why not start sending those people to Guantanamo? I mean...they'll eventually hurt someone so they're pretty much on par with everyone else at Gitmo. Sooooo...why the double standard?

And actually, I do have a better plan. We just need to knock it off. No one in this country seems to understand that what works for us probably wouldn't work somewhere else. American style democracy, while not really a democracy in the true sense of the word, just doesn't work in countries like Iraq. Ok...so we've "freed" them (whatever the hell that means)...now what? Install a U.S. style democracy that probably won't last 5 years? Our government doesn't do their homework. They didn't look at all of the possible scenarios we might run into in Iraq. Like...oh...that a good amount of people might not want us there or that we'd just piss off people who mean us harm thus putting us in more danger. They just assumed we'd roll into Baghdad, kill all the bad guys, and the people would throw us a ticker tape parade. Never mind there are problems in the country that go back a thousand years that no amount of "liberating" can solve. I say now we just sit back and see what happens. If the country wants to destroy itself, let it. If they're really free then that's their choice. If you really believe that what would happen if we just stood back won't happen eventually anyway, I have a bridge I could sell you. We're just buying time. We'll have to deal with the fallout of our bad decisions eventually...might as well get it over with.

Well...let's see. Since 9/11 I don't have the freedom of knowing that I won't be tossed in jail without a trial or lawyer or even charges for something I've said that someone might take the wrong way. I don't have the freedom of knowing that a branch of the government can search my house without my knowledge and no solid evidence. I don't have the freedom of some having some asshole call me unpatriotic because I have an opinion that's not popular. I don't have the freedom of not being videotaped damn near every second I'm out of my house. I know you're saying to yourself "well if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide" and in a way you'd be right. But then again I don't think I should have to deal with any of these things period. Does it make sense that, because of a foreign threat, we tighten down on every citizen in this country? All of that manpower and money could have done a lot more for us if we had put it towards the RIGHT intelligence gathering rather than just casting a huge net and coming up empty. The next time you go to an airport and witness how painfully inept security is, tell me we spent the right money in the right places.