It's just an excuse to justify what they're doing...

The basic deal is that there is no Al-Queda. It's just a big invention to create an enemy, a *boogey-man* to wave in front of people to get them excited so that they will go along with the government-sponsored program of an increasing surveillance and decreasing freedom environment. The logic is that if they can't just enslave us overtly, they have to get us emotionally excited so that our thinking processes are inhibited. Then, whenever they want to turn up the volume on the fascism meter, they just wave another 'terrorist incident' in front of the people, and then they become more compliant, and less willing to fight it. You can't trade freedom for security. It doesn't work. How can it possibly work? The loss of freedom has nothing to do with security. You can't protect something by DESTROYING IT!!! How is that supposed to work? How can anybody 'hate us for our freedom' when we're giving it away? This is not a good situation...