Who could have possibly predicted that a few guys with box cutters

[Vinnie From Indy]

would be the cause for America to abandon the rule of law and civil liberty. It is kind of funny in light of the money we spent on the cold war to fight the Soviet Union from stealing our freedom. I bet the old soviet cold warriors are dumbfounded at their stupidity in bankrupting their country on weapons etc. when they only needed a few box cutters to destroy America.

Listening to the Senate hearings on the NSA spying program it is stunning to listen to these guys build up the "perpetual war" philosophy as a justification for abandoning the rule of law.

[thefloyd]

1. In order to protect America from box cutters

Star Wars Missle Defense must be completed. Only then can the American Police State be lifted.:sarcasm:

[seabeyond]

2. hence why they treat a 44 year old mom bring two kids and hubby

on a plane for a trip to florida can possibly be a terrorist too. never before in history has a mom blown a plane up with her children on,... but there is the possibility

so all rights be gone

[htuttle]

3. Well, the Project for a New American Century predicted it

...or hoped for it, depending on how you read their position papers.

"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor."
-- "Rebuilding America's Defenses" (2000), Chapter V, page 51, Project for a New American Century

[The Stranger]

4. "[Politicians] say they can rescue us from dreadful dangers we cannot see

and would not understand . . . " The Power of Nightmares (BBC)

[OneBlueSky]

5. who could have predicted that a MYTH about a few guys . . .

with boxcutters would cause America to abandon the rule of law and civil liberty? . . .

[peacetalksforall]

6. A few guys with box cutters was an opening to ignoring the law and

Congress. It has been the goal of the Federalsit Society and the evangelicals to avoid, misrepresent, change, cancel, and revise the law and Congress and substitute theirs. Therefore, the 'guys with the box cutters' worked perfectly for the Federalist Society and evagelicals plan. And the Federalist Society and evangelicals plans are the same as the Repubican Party plans - convenient, huh? Do they toast to the box cutter cutters for advancing their goals?

[Inland]

7. Well, box cutters plus Bush equals the fading away of the US.

You need both.