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<blockquote data-quote="Christian Tepfer" data-source="post: 49324" data-attributes="member: 108"><p>Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My opinion is: there can not be a proactive protection against terrorism in the way it is carried out now. It is simply wrong. </p><p></p><p>1. agencies that talk people into building bombs to catch them doing it afterwards is simply illegal in my view. </p><p>2. pre-crime should be fiction, not reality</p><p></p><p>There is no way to balance security against freedom. While I'm not sure if Benjamin Franklin actually said this or something similar, it's a good quote:</p><p></p><p>"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."</p><p></p><p>Of course, terrorists should be treated as criminals, no more, no less. No other treatment is worth a civilized society. </p><p></p><p>The definition or terror and terrorism (or the lack of a firm definition) is what led me to the airport statement, the word terrorism is derived from french terrorisme, from state terrorism "Reign of Terror". There are lots of controversial definitions of terror and terrorism, one of them is spreading extreme fear. Everybody who is flying would agree that it's different now and (depending on the airport) creating some fear. So I would call airport security a mild form of terrorism itself. In my opinion it's not the right way to go for a free society.</p><p></p><p>Also in my opinion there is no way to go out and "root out" terrorists, as every takedown creates new spin for other players.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Christian Tepfer, post: 49324, member: 108"] Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news. My opinion is: there can not be a proactive protection against terrorism in the way it is carried out now. It is simply wrong. 1. agencies that talk people into building bombs to catch them doing it afterwards is simply illegal in my view. 2. pre-crime should be fiction, not reality There is no way to balance security against freedom. While I'm not sure if Benjamin Franklin actually said this or something similar, it's a good quote: "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither." Of course, terrorists should be treated as criminals, no more, no less. No other treatment is worth a civilized society. The definition or terror and terrorism (or the lack of a firm definition) is what led me to the airport statement, the word terrorism is derived from french terrorisme, from state terrorism "Reign of Terror". There are lots of controversial definitions of terror and terrorism, one of them is spreading extreme fear. Everybody who is flying would agree that it's different now and (depending on the airport) creating some fear. So I would call airport security a mild form of terrorism itself. In my opinion it's not the right way to go for a free society. Also in my opinion there is no way to go out and "root out" terrorists, as every takedown creates new spin for other players. [/QUOTE]
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