WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11 commission's final report recommended the creation of a new intelligence center and high-level intelligence director to improve the nation's ability to disrupt future terrorist attacks.

The commission also proposes the U.S. government do more at home to guard against future terror attacks, including: national standards for drivers' licenses and other identification, improving "no-fly" and other terrorist watch lists and using more biometric identifiers to screen travelers at ports and borders.

The new domestic super spy agency is still developing, but now the Patriot Acts I & II have a blueprint given us by a commission that brags about the depth of its non-investigation. How fast can they get it passed? The teeth of the new laws that will govern our new behaviors will be: stricter can't-fly lists with bio-metric face readings to catch the would be terrorist threats. The bio-metric technology they speak of is the new face reading from a camera connected to a computer. Does thousands of cameras trained on you in public make you feel safer?

I like how they came out with a video of the would be terrorists getting frisked at the airport at the same time the commission is recommending more cameras with fancy bio-metric software than can pick you out in a crowd. Have you done anything to fit the defintion of a terrorist; like attend one too many protests against Bush?

How far will this Orwellian nightmare go? Too bad the American public will not realize that a part of the criteria to determine if someone can fly will include their credit rating, until its too late. Pay your bills on time or your rights will be taken away. Then watch for more mandatory payments (taxes) like the mandatory car insurance scandal. Then watch this no-fly rule expand to a no-entry rule for certain buildings and events.

Welcome to America, pee in a bottle, pay your bills, don't talk bad about the president.

How far will the American people allow this charade of "fear" go to control our lives? The living in fear and giving up freedoms that may never be returned is the price we are paying. There is a better way than waging war to spread the economics of the empire; develop Fair trade not Free trade, and abandon the market economy and all its colonial, poverty creating, impact upon the world.

The commission also recommended that the United States and its allies embark on a global strategy of diplomacy and public relations to dismantle the terror network. This makes more sense than simply hitting the problem over the head with a big hammer.

Today, July 22, 2004 is a catastrophe for American freedom.

The panel also determined the "most important failure before Sept. 11 was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat." The world's best chance to avoid this war is to not react to the fear. We saw what giving in to fear did to our congress when giving Bush the resolution to wage war - IRAQ.

I can hardly wait to see what imaginative things our leaders will think of to make the world a safer place; like Poindexter, head of DARPA, when he wanted to place all the intel reports on the stock market. Investing in thought, imagine that, what will they think of next; betting on turf wars over intellectual property?