Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (143273)	9/11/2001 6:35:47 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Meanwhile we will get weaker and weaker...we have little control, especially of our borders. Easy to drive right in from Canada or take a plane from where-ever... If you get picked on you get a Lawyer... We are such an easy target now it's pathetic. So what are the options? Close the national borders and permanently garrison them? Garrison the state borders? I'm sorry, but I don't want to see panic lead to effective martial law in the U.S. If that happens, then the terrorists have already won. We're a free society. That comes with certain risks and responsibilities. Unfortunately, events like today are one of those risks. Let's say we give up some of our freedoms today to take measures to allegedly prevent something like this from happening again... What happens when the next bright individual finds a way around that and we're hit hard again? Do we then give up MORE freedoms??? ... and again more??? The minute we start giving up the rights of the individual in response to an event like this is the minute America surrenders to terrorism... ... and if that happens then America effectively and collectively spits on the grave of the innocent victims of today's atrocity.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (143273)	9/11/2001 9:33:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Jim, <I would think that in order to take these factions out, a number of innocent people might be taken with them. If that happens some people even in this country will be outraged...> Not many, I'd imagine. Heck, even America's allies and those neutral to America would tolerate a little excessive force, given the horrifying scope of this attack. Those who wouldn't are those who would join the Palestinians dancing in the streets anyway. And I doubt they'd get much world sympathy if they were to eat a few cruise missiles lobbed their way. Heck, I'm sure if Terrorism were a nation, we would nuke it to glass without any hesitation. But I don't think even that sort of clear-cut vengeance would fill the void left by all of this. More than retaliation, America needs to find its national spirit again. Tenchusatsu