Quote Originally Posted by makor01
i keep hearing all this crap about the poilce/soldiers in the air ports with automatic weapons etc etc. People dont seem to realize how sept 11 changed shit. Theyre not trying to make some "police state" its called a "build up" and is supposed to serve as a deterrent for any future attacks. Notice that i said "suppose to". Do i think that having all these police/national guard soldiers in train stations and air ports is gonna help? well no i really dont. In fact i think its caused exactly what im seeing in this thread....paranoia. I dont deny that "big brother" is out there and that the gathering of personal info is happening, but i dont take simple pictures of 1 LAV in NY as the beginning of "martial law".

Even though Donald Rumsfeld came on the air and stated that in the event of another attack, people would lose their liberties and made it clear that the current constitution would be placed on the back burner for a more militaristic state? I'm not going on hearsay i watched it on television. I read reports about how Roberto Gonzalez thinks torture is okay even torturing people to death. Today it might be one tank with people waving and cheering but wait until another attack. Everyone will be so scared that they'll do whatever soldiers tell them because they'll remember how warm and receptive it was before.