European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 2007 stars and stripes Page 19 opinion didst let Era hamper terror arrests six months i re deemed credit card Points to discount our family summer Vaca i had to navigate a Tele phone Obsta Minaei Smerconish Cie course to make it Hap in con Vinced the airlines deliberately make it a Burden to re deem their but i be cause the destination sounded a lot has changed since we booked in just hoping my wife will still and in thinking about what awaits us Ive been eager to show our kids the including speakers Corner in Hyde its really something to grievances of every kind get aired Here by the citizenry on sunday afternoons from makeshift in visited this spot with my we were taken Aback by some strident Antisemitic outright advocating the destruction of i re member thinking that some of the Guys seemed and then rationalizing that it was bet Ter for them to vent through words than it want 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bomb the bbl literally purged All mention of the word from its the explanation we recognize that the word terrorist can look like a reflection of editorial Bias rather than a statement of fast Forward two with the discovery of car bombs planted in the Haymarket and the Sun blast at Glasgow Airport last initial reports identified the suspects with the non specific asian Label instead of Call ing them Muslim Only As Law enforcement do the gloves appear to have come its almost As if a modern form of the Chamberlain mindset has been replaced with a reincarnation of our friends across the Pond Are moving at Breakneck Speed not to appease their but rather to examine the execute Light Ning raids and make gone Are the the cod the sensitivity Treyve arrested eight people in connection with the plot All of whom Are in the medical proves More than 100 flights have been cancelled at Heathrow As a result of stepped up Treyve patrolled with armed vehicles and stepped up Stopan search investigators have used cell phone records to identify Calls received from Treyve metropolitan this image was taken from video of the july arrest of Muktar said Ibrahim and Ramzi 29 25 Hussain 28 and Yassin were found guilty Mon Day of plotting to bomb London Public transport system on july a British judge sentenced the men to life in prison tracked the Matching addresses and identified the people living they seized two suspects while they drove on a Highway in Northern England the night of june perhaps theres a historical lesson in there was no amount of conciliation that could have thwarted a different foe 60 years that strategy was tried and Only when the lion was brought in from the wilderness did the threat get turned not until the demons of a differ ent age were confronted Headon was there really peace for our and that peace is now Michael Smerconish is a Philadelphia inquirer greater threat posed by allowing hysteria to Rule by Paul Campos for nearly six years now weve been hearing from politicians and Pun dits about How changed one especially unwelcome change wrought by that Day has been Ever Large num Bers of otherwise sane and sensible people continue to utter the most ridiculous things regarding the subject of consider a column last week by the Washington posts David Ignatius wonders How the nation would react to a future terrorist would the country come together to combat its he or would it pull farther apart Ignatius notes that liberals would blame the Bush administration for needlessly in flaming Muslim anti americanism by Bun gling the invasion of while conserva Tives would blame liberals for weakening the nations antiterrorism by in sisting for Laws requiring warrants for wiretaps and forbidding Tor Ture be Ignatius Calls this sort of political Dis agreement Given that the British car bomb plots uncovered last week remind us of our vulnerability to terrorist wherever we in a politically healthy Ignatius the news from Britain would have a galvanizing politicians and the pub Lic would pull together and take appropriate Steps to prepare for future terrorist attacks on and just what would these Steps include Ignatius Doest say Hes strongly in favor of National Unity but in order to do what All this reminds me of the Simpsons episode in which Willie Nelson in vites the family to make a presentation at the new awareness when we heard the goal was to promote Marge we  say when the subject is people like Ignatius seem to have trouble grasping that political disagreement is let me put it As plainly As possible the reason americans Dis agree about How to respond to the threat of terrorism is because they have radically Dif Ferent views on the for my View is that Ignatius and his ilk have helped create a fear of terror ism out of All proportion to the actual threat terrorism poses that by doing so they helped drag America into a disastrous War with Iraq and that there now helping to create the conditions that May enable an even More disastrous War with nothing better illustrates this than Igna Tius claim that the British car bombing plots remind us of our vulnerability to terrorist what they remind anyone not already in Thrall to the cultural hysteria Ignatius promotes is that All the terrorists discovered in America Over the past few years like the British would be bomb thoroughly pathetic who collectively proved themselves incapable of blow ing up a phone in the two hours or so in guessing it took Ignatius to Crank out yet another 800 words of substance free alarmist festooned with banal platitudes about the need for about 350 americans since approximately 14 million americans have some of these people died agonizing deaths on emergency room floors because they didst have health a Quad Ter million were killed in car around were shot to several thousand died of acute alcohol in most of these deaths were pre in Only some of them were preventable at anything like a reason Able heres a question what would be the optimal number of deaths per year in the United states caused by Lessith Anidel medical or car or gunshot or alcohol poisoning in sure Ignatius under stands Why anyone who answers Zero is saying something so Why does he continue to write similar nonsense about terrorism Scripps Howard news service columnist Paul Campos is a Law professor at the University of prickly City by Scott Stantis