What changes in policy would occur if we had another large scale terrorist attack?

Question

(in the US)

and could it lead to the end of liberty as we know it?

Answer 1

We will likely find out if Obama or Hillary are President. I would expect that either of them will reign things in very tightly when it comes to liberty.

Answer 2

Well, we could stop the whole fight them over there so we don't fight them over here argument. Kinda proves them wrong. It would also show that Homeland Security failed miserably.

If we knew who did it, I'd say this time we actually go after the bastards that did the attack instead of letting them go free and fighting with another group/country somewhere else! That would be a great policy change.

Answer 3

For one thing, It would be 100 years before a Democrat was ever elected to the White House.

Answer 4

A further erosion of our civil liberties, it makes one wonder just who is really funding these" terrorists".
Terrorism above all else operates for profit.

The so-called "war on terror" fought as the war on Iraq is taking place in a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. Iraq posed no threat to the United States except in the minds of those requiring and/or fabricating the reasons for war. Yes, , let us talk of the sickness then. A first strike, preventive war of choice is sick. Bombing a country through "Shock and Awe" because it was expedient to have access to our desperately needing its oil is sick. Adopting and using a policy of extreme rendition where the U.S. government sanctions and fosters the disappearance of people to nations where gross torture is allowed so that surrogates can do the dirty work for it is sick. Lying to Congress, the US people and the world in order to justify going to war is sick. Murdering complete Iraqi families by dropping 1,000 pound bombs on them is sick. Breaking the standard by which human decency is maintained, at least in part, during war, i.e., the Hague Conventions of 1889 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, and the Nuremberg Conventions adopted by the United Nations December 11, 1945, is sick. Unloading hundreds of tons of depleted uranium is sick. Dropping cluster bombs is sick. Unexploded cluster bomb bomblets becoming land mines taking off children's limbs is sick. Killing as you would call them precious unborn fetuses by poisoning them with radioactive dust is sick. Our youth dying for the ruling elite and rich man's war for profit is sick. Let us reiterate once again, that going to war with Iraq had nothing to do with any threat from Iraq and it had nothing to do with 9-11. It had everything to do with lying about weapons of mass destruction, lying about aluminum tubes, lying about yellow-cake uranium, lying about mobile biological and chemical weapons labs, lying to the United Nations, lying to the world. That, , is sick. And, it is this sickness that you would project onto those who criticize you and the sickness of this regime. The fact that anyone else, or faction, or nation, may be sicker is not justification for excusing this regime's sickness.

The excessive inability of the Bush regime to face the reality of their behavior and solve the problems they created in their sick war of choice contributes to their psychosis.

Answer 5

No, I think America would come together, and I'm afraid that's what it's going to take to get America to wake up, Unfortunately.

Answer 6

I think the "random" screening would be a lot less random.

Answer 7

panic attacks and military draft....