I haven't bothered to read the last two pages....
But regarding terrorism -
I DO NOT want to live in a "locked down" country, with new anti terror laws popping up all the time, as knee jerk reactions to some perceived threat. They will NEVER catch them anyway, and all these new laws do is p*ss people off and even turn people against the country.
The invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan was a mastermind plot put together by Bush and his neo conservative buddies for no other reason than energy and hence power and he managed to sucker in Blair - now the world is a much more dangerous place, full stop. I don't blame the USA, just the Bush family and his mates.
In Britain we have had around 52 people killed by these nutters in say a decade, yet draconian new laws have been introduced. To put that in perspective, at least 31 teenagers have died in knife crime THIS YEAR and the annual murder rate runs at about 800 PA. We don't see high impact new laws introduced for these events do we?
The states is even worse, how many nutters have been into a school with an Armalite this decade? yet guns can still be bought in Walmart?
I am not anti USA at all, I love much of the stuff over there, flying in particulal. My wife is American and we live in the UK but she will not return to live in the USA until Bush and the Neo conservatives are gone for good. The UK is not much better either with TBLiars...sorry, GBrowns governement pushing through draconian laws every week. Soon they'll be able to arrest you if you write a post like this on an Internet forum.
Maybe it is time to move......