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Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by wyldfire on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:57AM (#12735694)
> Especially when you consider that we appear to switch our brains off in the wake of any significant terror attack

I agree but we must admit that it's terribly difficult when faced with terrorism to consider the proposition that doing nothing might be better than any action. Harder still is to make the claim in front of politicians who might consider that an opportunity to spin it into a weakness rather than a strength.

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Re:The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ by AstralStorm on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:10AM (#12741483)
And thus terrorists win long term. Not by actually achieving what they want, but by paralysing their enemy and affecting them negatively.

One would think people in "the land of the free" wouldn't act like either scared rabbits or enraged bull.

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