Letters to the Editor
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The Disaster We're Waiting For...
...is when TSA cops open fire on a person of interest because they're acting suspiciously or wearing a "hoax-bomb" and end up killing a few innocent bystanders.
A friend of mine went to see the Elder Bush speak when he was in high-school. He was at the speech, about 40 yards from the President, when he turned to a friend of his and said, "Hand me the telescopic sight!"
He was whisked off within 20 seconds by Secret Service agents, who sat him in a room with no door for 4 hours and sweated him. Quite justifiably.
If that approach was used to such great effect in '91, why can't we use it today?
For what it's worth--the student did screw up, and she definitely deserved to be investigated and detained until it was established that she wasn't any kind of threat.
Still, I'm not real happy about cops (of any stripe) pulling submachine guns on citizens without a pretty compelling reason. Of course opinions will differ, but a circuit board with LEDs and a handful of clay on an adolescent woman doesn't say "bomb" to ME.
As is evident from the comments here, there are lots of folks who WANT to live in that world. I'd encourage them to try out some other totalitarian states, rather than transform the USA into one. My love for America is founded on my passion about our freedoms, not on how well-armed our police are.