The problem is that we're not dealing with "occasional" sacrifices to "some sort" of central authority. Since 9/11 we've been asked to surrender our rights by

The problem is that we're not dealing with "occasional" sacrifices to "some sort" of central authority. Since 9/11 we've been asked to surrender our rights by the truck load, and each new disaster seems to require ever more submission to an ever more powerful central state. The pendulum has swung too far the other way.