re: #231 Targetpractice

Thing is, it’s working. Why? Because we’re slowly creeping out of the post-Bush hangover and realizing that, yes, we gave the government the power to do a lot of shit that would turn one’s hair white if it had been proposed on Sept 10th, 2001.

Thing is, there’s no denying that our inward-looking data gathering needed a serious upgrade in light of 9/11. It’s just that nobody at the time had the least clue how to go about doing it right, and as a result, we got a whale of a clusterfark done on our civil liberties.