Some of us have been joking about this for a while, but it's not funny. What do you do to prevent terrorists sewing up bombs inside their bodies to get past airline security? How do you keep them from blowing up the airplanes? Do you strip everybody naked and see if there are any surgical scars? How about a fMRI scan for everyone? Give everyone a little EMP inside a bomb blast container and sorry charlie if you had a pacemaker?
You do profiling and have no-fly lists that make sense, plus strong visa requirement enforcement overseas before they get here, and that's about all you can do. Arguably, you talk to the militant islamists in a language they understand (do the war hard, and with pork products) but that won't be happening under BHO's Presidency.
We MUST ACCEPT some level of risk. Otherwise you end up with padded light poles on the sidewalks of London. Otherwise you get stuff like VIPR searches minding your business for you, and then you STILL can't stop somebody with a bit of plastique explosive sewn up inside them. The world is dangerous. You can't prevent hazard, no matter how much liberty you abandon in the quest for security. Therefore (drumroll, please):
Trading liberty for security is a pointless, fruitless exercise.
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