Buy for $20 and sell for $38? Why did they choose Cell-phones? Are toothpaste, flash drives and portable MP3 players out of style? How about pre-paid phone cards? I needed one a few days ago, and yet there was no friendly Palestinian to sell me one. I would have gladly paid a few percent more to save me a trip to 7/11.
I guess there need to be 1000 explosions before a precedent can be set on who can buy what. Oh, and yes, profiling does work. Three naturalized Palestinians are infinitely more likely to commit an act of terrorism than the three white-haired Norwiegan grannies.
If these enterprizing young Palestinians have a problem with the situation their distant, non-infidel bretheren caused, maybe they should start grass roots campaigns to end terrorism. Will they? Of course not. They're too busy engaging in business endeavors that uncannily resemble terrorist conspiracies. Go figure.
Limitation of freedom? **** stains on the Bill of Rights? The end of democracy as we thought we knew it? Yes, to all. The men who perpetrated 9/11 saw to it that their countrymen (or anyone resembling them) would never again be seen in the same light. They ruined it for everyone else, spurred on the hatred and suspicion, etc, etc, etc... If however, we go on pretending that we still live in a pre 9/11 world, we'll be doomed to live through another one.
Before you guys start throwing the noose over the nearest tree limb, I'd just like to mention an argument that my brother-in-law's been having with the rest of the family for years now. He says that he'd rather an atomic bomb detonate in the center of Manhattan than have any more of our freedoms, as Americans, marginalized by security measures. Does he have a point, or is his idealism a recipe for genocide at the hands of mindless fanatics? Is there a middle ground and where is it?
Go forth and discuss.
