This disaster reminds me of countless science fiction stories which recounted tales of powerful weapons in the hands of terrorists and/or general bad guys. But now its happening. And the real world result is that people of Muslim faith are going to be stereotyped here in America. Civil liberties and rights will fall by the wayside as Congress decides to ignore them in order to restore order (even if the rights have nothing to do with terrorism). Isreal will get tons of support from America from now on (since their enemies look similar to Osama bin Ladin), and countries all over the world are going to try to be real nice to the US considering Americans aren't really willing to take too much crap at the moment. And eventually, someone is going to walk into a busy airport terminal with a bioweapon or chemical weapon (read: 12 Monkees). I was expecting a major act of terrorism soon, but this was so massive it really was like something out of sci-fi. Lets just hope things don't turn out as bad as those writers predict...
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This disaster reminds me of countless science fiction stories which recounted tales of powerful weapons in the hands of terrorists and/or general bad guys. But now its happening. And the real world result is that people of Muslim faith are going to be stereotyped here in America. Civil liberties and rights will fall by the wayside as Congress decides to ignore them in order to restore order (even if the rights have nothing to do with terrorism). Isreal will get tons of support from America from now on (since their enemies look similar to Osama bin Ladin), and countries all over the world are going to try to be real nice to the US considering Americans aren't really willing to take too much crap at the moment. And eventually, someone is going to walk into a busy airport terminal with a bioweapon or chemical weapon (read: 12 Monkees). I was expecting a major act of terrorism soon, but this was so massive it really was like something out of sci-fi. Lets just hope things don't turn out as bad as those writers predict...