Kevin's Watch

We have been having a very good discussion in the 'Tank about the Boston bombings and I thought I might follow up on a suggestion made a while back (when the 'Tank became an open group forum) that political threads could be started here in Gen Disc where the discussion could be more relaxed and opinion-based.

In the 'Tank we have touched on a number of issues (warrantless searches, home-grown terrorism, media reporting), what are your thoughts now in relation to the events in Boston?

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[EDIT: to amend my description of the status of the 'Tank, to make it clearer that anyone can be part of the open group. Click here if you'd like to join (the link is at the end of [Syl]'s post, which you should read before you join up).]

A quick side note. The Tank isn't a private forum. It is readable by all and postable by all who agree to and abide by the contract, which has merely gone from implicit to explicit. I don't want people getting the idea that the Tank is only for a certain group or that there's some kind of bar to be met.

We've frequently talked about Tank-like subjects in GD. When I say that a topic should be moved to the Tank, it's not (mostly) out of some proprietary sense, but the learned instinct that something will eventually have to be moved.