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Originally posted by Adder
I agree. We had a very pale shadow of this sort of thing at one point, but the universal uproar against the three questions (did you pack your own bags? did anyone give you to take on the plane? have your bags been with you since you packed?) after 9/11 only moved us farther away. Those questions were far from sufficient, but the goal there was to catch the stupid (like the Irish girl in the story), not the suspiciously nervous.
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The liberals view terrorism as a domestic criminal matter. Those questions were designed to bolster the fraud prosecution, after the fact.
