Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
Please refrain from comparing everything that you do not like to Hitler and Nazi Germany. This rhetorical device is "getting old", and it's not applicable to the situation in New York, where the largest mass murder in America's history took place on 9/11/01.

The police are NOT walking around rousting, or "searching" people in NYC. There are random baggage checks in the subways. I have not been subject to this. The City is ASKING people to refrain from bringing backpacks and large bags in the subway, so that they do not have to inspect them.

Believe it or not, I am disturbed by the infringements on my privacy ?? but that may be necessary in these times for safety.

Had our foreign policies been different, possibly this situation would not have come about. Our domestic policies for the security of the nation are hampered by rivalries between agencies. The public becomes confused when the Dept. of Homeland Security, New York City, and other agencies issue conflicting opinions regarding the viability of a threat.

The incompetence of much of the government is staggering to behold, and, for me at least, is a fairly good indication of the lack of plausibility for a vast ??conspiracy? design in this terrorism story. The facts are sad, and often disgraceful, but the sources must be considered. This crew is too dumb to be able to pull off a major coup in a way similar to that which some of you are suggesting. Some power brokers WILL take advantage of the opportunities for profit, but I do not think that they would be able to successfully cover-up their participation with staging major terrorist attacks - and subsequently blaming al queda.

if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and shits through feathers, i will call it a duck.

i have been around for over sixty years and have seen this coming for a long time, it is here.

you got your safety, but gave up your freedom, i will not.
in reality it is a dangerous world, and there is NO safety, to believe you can even have it, is an illusion.
the government of the u.s. committed those acts of murder, it is not the first time, you need to read more, if nothing else.
read any of hitlers writings, i have, read about the reichstag fire and the subsequent enactment's for the peoples safety.
hitlers platform was "law and order", damn man it is the same shit.
you have more people in jail, than any other country in the history of man, and your still making more laws and building jails run by private companies.
you make money off of prisoners, that is slavery.
i have been held and beaten like a stepchild by your benevolent protectors, three and half inch skull fracture and a blow out fracture of the right orbit, not allowed to get medical aid for two days,
so there is no way you can convince me that police are here for anyone else's protection except their own, they will do what they can get away with.
they are more afraid then you, hitler was a coward and so is bush.
it takes a coward to be a bully.
still no difference between, "show me some I D", and " let me see your papers"