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How to stop terrorism

It would seem that about 100 years before 9/11/2001 we had 9/6/1901 when President McKinley was shot and killed by an anarchist in Buffalo, NY. (Considering the stock market crashes and miscellaneous other horrible things that happen in September you’d think we’d just skip over that month every year.)

The Boston Globe, in their Ideas section (what a great idea), has a good article about how President Roosevelt dealt with terrorism. The great trust-buster realized that he could fix American social problems by trimming the excesses of unfettered capitalism. Thus removing the conditions that spawned McKinley’s killer Leon Czolgosz. Listening: Jurassic Shift - Ozric Tentacles Feeling: impressed