A Sullivan Reader writes:

Why haven’t terrorists been hitting public transportation, museums, shopping malls, movie theatres, etc? Either because there aren’t nearly as many terrorists as the security state apparatus and its apologists want us to think there are, or terrorists really do just want to hit airplanes.  My money is on the former.  I’ve long argued with friends that Al Qaeda has already shot its wad.

All you need to do to shut down the USA is five guys.  Five suicide bombers who will detonate themselves roughly simultaneously one Monday morning or Friday afternoon on Boston’s MTA, New York’s subway, DC’s subway, Chicago’s CTA and the BART in San Francisco. Or five guys to leave exploding backpacks in five upscale stores in the same five cities.  Or five baseball parks in the same five cities. Or five museums in the same cities, or five …

Bingo, America will react just like it did after 9/11 - total shutdown, panic, madness, new laws restricting civil liberties, billions of dollars spent on security theater. And that hasn’t happened, and not due to “If you see something, say something” PSAs on the trains.  It hasn’t happened because they don’t have the guys.  So when security experts say it’s just a matter of time till terrorists strike again, I shake my head: what are they waiting for?  For the security experts’ paychecks to clear?

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    The TSA is not about safety; it is about power.

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