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We need targeted surveillance and by that I mean something that many will vehemently disagree with. Before you down vote, please make the effort to read to the end and then down vote! If I was a doctor and my patient had cancer in his foot, then if try to treat the foot to get rid of the cancer. I would also pay particularly close attention to the leg connected to that foot, to make sure that the cancer did not sprea…
I have argued since 2000 that terrorism is a problem of TECHNOLOGY. Technology enables small groups of people that previously were unable to do much damage to do a lot more. And that will only increasez If you read what I said back then, I said that I see mass surveillance as the inevitable outcome of that. All the political correctness in our countries isn't going to stop this reaction, and its attendant overreactio…
The Madrid bombings, the various India and E. Africa attacks, the French attacks from earlier this year and yesterday-all of these could have been carried out with almost exactly the same with planning a century ago, or with ease a half century ago.
9/11 was the only one of all those attacks that truly used technology in a new and frighteningly innovative way. And almost no one thinks that will happen again, because every plane passenger in the world knows that unopposed Islamic radical hijackings are a death sentence, and so will without exception revolt en masse, even if it causes the plane to go down (indeed, there's significant evidence that passengers had adapted to this terrifying reality within an hour of the initial attacks, i.e. United Flight 93).