Well put
Let's call it department of calm heads vs. department of headless chickens. In any event, our friends in Britain are providing a model on this.
On the way to New York on Friday, I heard a person on talk radio start to rant about how "if the government cannot protect the people, the people need to protect themselves" seconds before saying that we needed internment camps.
Internment camps.
This is about as idiotic as one could get, especially because:
a) these attacks were poorly executed and ridiculously low-tech
b) the attackers were reported not even to be all of middle-eastern origin
c) the constitution should be able to survive a couple of cans of propane gas
Seriously, why is the media whipping this up? Terrorists have no power if people are not afraid of them.