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According to Chertoff on Meet the Press this past weekend:

“We have to make sure our legal system allows us to do that. It’s not like the 20th century, where you had time to get warrants.”

It’s not like we can’t trust the enforcement arm of the law or anything [warning: the pic on that page of someone who was beaten is not exactly breakfast material]. Personal rights and freedoms are overrated anyway.

Thankfully, we seem to have found a way to nullify the impact of lipstick-based-explosives.

To those of you who think those actions are A Good Thing, can you tell me what happened to make the treat of lipstick-based-explosives any less real in the past two days? Do you not see how arbitrary and senseless this reactionary approach to security is?

What happens when a meeting you attend attached to some organization suddenly ends up on the suspicious list? Are you *sure* you have nothing to hide in your house…your car…your computer…your shed?

As I said in an earlier post, this whole thing now wreaks of deliberate attempt to give more power to the authorities.

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