So all that hysteria yesterday

[JDPriestly]

181. You mention the Boston bombing attacks.

Doesn't the fact that they took place strongly suggest that the government is spinning its wheels when it comes to investigating and controlling not just terrorism but the epidemic of violence that is taking place across our country since maybe the 1950s?

This kind of surveillance is not the right approach. It makes a lot of people even more paranoid than they are. It chills speech and the exercise of other fundamental rights, and it separates people rather than bring them together. It creates distrust rather than trust. All those feelings make the extreme amount of violence in our society, the fear and the excessive separations between people more likely to occur.

I note that this surveillance and the record-keeping did nothing to deter or help identify the Boston bombers in time to prevent the damage.

I note also that the Sandy Hook massacre cost more lives than the "terrorist" Boston bombers.