Real-Life Repercussions Of Snowden Leaks: Al Qaeda Changing Tactics, Making Plot Detection Harder

[mick063]

25. 9/11 is getting old

I understand the "never forget" part, but we have also unleashed trillions of dollars, thousands of drone attacks, militarized and federally coordinated our local police, and taken out Al Qaeda #2 a multitude of times, yet the "danger" is flaunted like 9/11 happened yesterday.

Relative to six year olds being slaughtered in school, this Al Qaeda scare tactic has really started to lose it's punch.

Now we have Southern Republicans declaring that dissent over female rights or dissent to 1% thievery as the equivalent to terrorism. As terrorism is apparently being constantly redefined to suit political agendas, the government infrastructure to battle it has grown into a monstrosity that is in itself, terrorizing.

The fear factor to justify wasteful spending on diminishing risk is just not cutting it any more. The effort and expenditure should be consummate with the risk. Our President can either declare we are winning this war or losing it. If we are winning it, there is no justification for such programs expanding at such a rate. If we are losing it, then the giant effort has been a failure.

Folks, we have to get a handle on this before it reaches "runaway" mode and becomes something we cannot ever get a handle on.