Osama bin Laden's legacy lives on with every traveler being herded through body scanners, with every illegal search in our 120-mile-radius Constitution-free zones, and with every warrantless wiretap.

Until his legacy dies, he lives on, as strong as ever.

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Can I at least bring a tube of toothpaste with me when I travel now?

Summary (from the speech broadcast on CNN):

* In August '10 a lead was uncovered. Obama directed followup.

* Lead was strengthened over time until it was isolated that bin Laden was in a compound in Pakistan.

* Obama gave the order and an American commando team went in, had a firefight, and killed bin Laden. His body was brought out.

* No Americans were harmed, and civilians were attempted to be protected.

* The Pakistani government was notified (speech did not say if this was pre-event or post-event).

And, transcript! http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-de...

Not even a whimper of cheer for Osama's death from me, given the abysmal foreign policy and national security state failure of the last decade. As another commenter said, "Osama bin Laden's legacy lives on with every traveler being herded through body scanners, with every illegal search in our 120-mile-radius Constitution-free zones, and with every warrantless wiretap."

Besides that, it's simply not like me to cheer for anyone's death, in principle, especially a figure the TV adamantly asserts we're supposed to hate. It's not that I doubt the veracity of the reasons given so much as I loathe demagoguery and spectacle.

I think you're comparing apples to oranges. An article from the mainstream media about bin Laden's killing is nothing out of the ordinary.

This link, however, is likely the first time in history that something so covert and meticulously planned has been exposed in real-time by someone experiencing it himself. We get the opportunity to see it from his perspective without the media's filters - just raw data. This is incredibly fascinating to me.

why, was he deaf?