Good job waste gate.
The government grows bigger by the minute. These are hopeless measures of an entity that knows no way of solving any problem other than by hoping that its natural unlimited self expansion will bring the solution in the end:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa584.pdf
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This paper is not intended to attack the
hard-working and well-intentioned members
of our law enforcement and intelligence communities.
Rather, it seeks to illustrate that
predictive data mining, while well suited to
certain endeavors, is problematic and generally
counterproductive in national security
settings where its use is intended to ferret out
the next terrorist.
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Originally Posted by Fish
To fly to the US is almost as hard as going to Moskow during the cold war.
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I find that statement to be quite cynical. If you intend to compare the USSR and the USA it can only be done through intellectual dishonesty: it is more difficult to travel to the USA today than in the past because of Al-Qaeda's attacks, not because Americans are building paradise on Earth. Ignoring this would only minimize the Soviet Union's Iron Curtain favouring the worse, as always happens when the unequals are equalized by force.
When Europe and the USA are the only points of reference, the "police state" expression can only be used rhetorically, without any regard to reality and in relative form.