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Who did not see this coming?

You have FBI beating the Terrorism drum. You have politicians running on being tough on Terrorism. Terrorism is BIG BUSINESS. It makes people rich. It gives the Govt unprecedented POWER of us. How did people NOT see this coming!?

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Some people did see it coming, and we ignored them. Hell, the politician who pushed those ridiculous TSA body scanners works for the company which made them! Cash rules everything around me, CREAM, get the money, dolla' dolla' bills, y'all.

The worse thing is how cash is not a resource, but a standard technology "regulated" by a private institution (that nontheless has the word federal in its name)

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