Try to refrain from arguing right off the bat and just express what if anything this week has ment to you.
Myself it proves that the Govt can't protect it's own people because it's incapable of connecting the dots.
It's also shown me that the Patriot Act was a pointless overreach when compared to the results it's netted.
One last observation. Our gov't has gotten so big it is incapable of functioning properly for the good of the people.
The biggest thing I've taken away....
I think the last week has highlighted a major problem with the 24-hour News cycle and the Partisan Entertainment Complex. The amount of completely incorrect information that was released by various news sources was staggering - as was the amount of politically based "speculation" fed by that incorrect information.
A lot of which was right here on this forum.
Sure, but it didn't start here. People parrot what they read on blogs and hear on the radio, and make posts about it.
This forum isn't leading the dialog.