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I've been racking my brain the last couple days to weeks pondering what has really changed on sept 11th, and I don't mean perceptions.

It has occured to me that nothing that was true on sept 10th wasn't true on sept 11th(except the blatently obvious that planes flew into the towers). On sept 10th, Al Qaeda was a threat, on the 11th it was realized, and on the 12th and all days after they were(and are) still a threat, no change at all.

On the 10th we had homeless and unemployment problems, and we still do.

On the 10th we had people dying of diseases that with research we could find a cure, and we still do. etc etc. But in reality, absolutely nothing changed on the 11th, nothing, nada, zero, except a threat was realized, and many more people became aware that there was a threat out there(a threat that has been out there for years, if not decades).

And as it was on the 10th, and the early morning of the 11th, the threat is still out there, and no matter what the US govt tries to do with security regulations, they will probably be in vain. The threats against us seem to be pretty smart puppies, and odds are, no matter what regulations the govt imposes on us to try to prevent another similar event, its always possible that the threat could find a loophole or workaround.

I think its best to just hope that the intel community is able to detect an impending attack before it happens, cause forcing stupid laws on the american people isn't going to prevent anything.

just my opinion.