We've always had Customs and Border Patrol. It's our reactionary creation of Homeland Security and the big increases of BP that demonstrate how we lost the war on terrorism. Americans have changed how they live in response to 9/11. And parts of the government encourage Americans to live in fear and put up with TSA, HS, and the over-loaded BP. It was the old BP that caught Ressam at PA, doing their usual job. The inflated BP is just that, inflated. What is the measurable increase in security?

Training Americans to live in fear of terrorism and accept increased government intrusion in their lives is the very definition of the terrorists have won.

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