I had to post this Wired article. It’s chilling. But just as chilling are the comments. You’ll se what I mean when you read the story.

This is a difficult issue. You ache for the people who were killed and have to ask, “Why did we not find this guy sooner?” But is it really what you want, for the government to scan the Internet looking for evil? How many false alarms will also ruin people’s lives?

In the past, it was simple to ignore the demons society creates. Today, in this age, with the demons out in the open, we do not know how to handle it. So we resort to blame and anger and revenge. We can’t turn our heads when what we want to ignore is flashing around the world on any screen with an Internet connection.

If that’s all much too heavy for all y’all, here’s Darren’s post of an Onion article that is, as usual, right on the money and very funny.