Easy fellas. We're on the same side. I think the "fence" thing is more of an expression than a real string of wire.
The guy was not a terrorist. He was a drug dealer and he's room temperature now, but I guarantee there are 5 others fighting to take his place.
This chain of events hit home with me, since it happened 2 red lights up the street from my parents house. We found out it was going on when my sister in Kentucky phoned to ask if they were ok. They were fine - with me on the St. Johns River yesterday
Back to the fences. and that "concept" in general...
if we "build fences" whether real or conceptual, we are admiting defeat to the terrorists.
THEIR GOAL IS TO DISRUPT OUR WAY OF LIFE.
When we restrict ourselves and empower our government to have more control over our lives, the terrorists can claim a point won.
In order to keep them from claiming victory we need to BE BRAVE and keep living our lives. We need to not allow them to use their only effective weapon (from where they get their name - terror) and let it slid off us like water off a ducks back.
Building any fence means a loss for us / win for them. A terrorist attack is not the smashing of a plane into a building or a car bomb. that is only the primer cap. The real attack is the fear they cause. The terror they cause. That is their goal. MAKE US CRIPPLE OURSELVES by being afraid.
In order to truly solve the problem once and for all, the head needs to be cut off the snake(s).
Or the snake needs to be convinced to just go live it's life elsewhere. (I still need convincing that that concept would ever work - Pandora's box has been opened and cannot be closed)
Sorry this one ranted slightly off topic. I'm bad about that. sorry.
matt.