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Monday, March 29, 2004

Commission To Determine That 9/11 Attacks Preventable

Really. That's what they're going to tell us. The attacks could have been stopped.

From the Drudge Report:

The 9/11 commission is likely to conclude the attacks could have been prevented by the simple act of sharing information. In Phoenix in July 2001, an FBI agent wrote a memo warning that some young Arabs taking flying lessons might be terrorists. Had that warning made it to Clarke's counterterror shop, airlines might have begun bolting cockpit doors. But the commission doesn't want to make government bureaucrats even more risk-averse by hounding them.


So far, the 9/11 commission has created rancor among the nation's leaders, shifted the focus from the ongoing war on terrorism to water long since passed under the bridge and has added fuel to the fire of an already nasty Presidential election.

What do we get for all that?

Something we all already knew and a nice little bill for the effort sent to taxpayers.

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Rob
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Heck no.


The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Rob on March 29, 2004 at 10:03 am
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I think your assessment is very astute.  Can I just send my portion of the bill to you instead?

King of Fools on March 29, 2004 at 10:04 am
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