>The purpose of terrorism is to elicit this exact response.< I agree with this statement... >bombing of the Super Bowl would be both a symbolic and a devastat

>The purpose of terrorism is to elicit this exact response.< I agree with this statement... >bombing of the Super Bowl would be both a symbolic and a devastating coup for a terrorist.< I agree with this statement... >precautions are exactly what I'd like to see.< I agree with this statement... Precautions...what other reasonable option is there? Terrorism's modus operandi is the disruption of an enemy's "comfort zone"....if you don't want your zone disrupted, for whatever reason you are forced to do what you can to prevent it from happening... "Terrorists" are viewed as extremists...unwilling to work through conventional societal means to effect change, or achieve an end...they lack the consensus necessary to coalesce majority opinion...they act, non-the-less, in brutal ways... Their willingness to act brutally, and kill innocents, ultimately makes putting a bounty their heads perfectly acceptable... Surveillance has been around for years...there are good and bad aspects, the acceptable and the unacceptable...this is being sorted out globally, not just in the U.S....