Read this article on CNN; it highlights the push for more cameras to be installed in cities. All the usual suspects lined up to restate their pathological desire to increase the size and scope of government:

"I do not think that cameras are the big mortal threat to civil liberties that people are painting them to be," Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams said Friday.

I'm glad he's so sure. I'll bet his predecessor, Mayor Marion Berry, would disagree.

He's not alone. While privacy advocates question their effectiveness, Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton called for New York City subway officials to install more cameras, even though officials said some 5,000 cameras are already in use across all modes of city travel.

In Stamford, Connecticut, Mayor Dan Malloy said it's time to revisit a 1999 ordinance that limited cameras to watching traffic.

Yessss, friends the only way we can prosecute this War on Terror is to insert a camera in your bazzoo. That way, we can personally check to see if you have an Al Qaida terrorist living in your colon, and give you a minute-by-minute reading on the status of any polyps we see that may be turning cancerous - or too Jewish/Black/Conservative/Tall.

Or, for fun's sake, we could engage the citizen's militia (uh oh, here I go with that stupid Second Amendment bullshit again) to patrol the borders, we could deport illegals, study our visa system and find out what the intentions are of people from foreign nations enjoying the benefits of our liberal democracy, and pay attention to the primary perpetrators of Islamofascist Terrorist acts, middle eastern men between the ages of 15 and 40, who show signs of distress in public conveyances. But who am I, the lowly cell-phone sales-gorilla, to make like the American public is smarter than the rocket-scientists that run Our Gummint. We all know they're the Bestest and The Brightest, and we're just a bunch of "vigilantes."

But we won't do any of the actually effective things to prevent terrorists from taking hold in the cities. I wonder how many citizens we will sacrifice on the altar of political correctness before we "take action" against the people we are certain are guilty of attacking us. I'm not sure it matters, since any action we take will simply confirm the message of hate the Islamofascists are preaching to their own uncertain co-religionists. If we lay down, alternatively, their message will be confirmed as a beacon of hope to those same people who are praying for our destruction - if we are weak, we get what we deserve, if we are strong, we are trying to victimize them and must be fought at every turn.

It's gonna be a long war. I hope the American People have the patience to wait it out, and can tolerate subway bombings here without blowing up Mecca and making 1.5 billion enemies.