5 True Things and 5 False Things

True Things:
1. America now looks far different than it did when Bush took power.
2. Most Americans are worse off in terms of both civil rights and finances.
3.Most Americans have lost someone to drugs, alcohol or disease in the last seven years.
4.Comparatively few have lost anyone to terrorism since since 2000.
5.We have been fighting the wrong things.
False Things:
1.We "HAVE" to behave like this.
2.The government has foiled viable terrorist plots.
3.Corporations have helped us fight terrorists.
4.American troops are (primarily) fighting terrorists.
5.Surveillance does not make us "safer".

That's right-surveillance DOES in fact, make us safer-If ALL you count are petty crimes, and incidences that would be ignored (IE:stuff not worth the cost of investigation) if not easily found by overarching watching...surveillance will find jaywalkers and toll booth scofflaws,and public drunks, and losers, but almost NEVER crimes that are so vile and heinous that they would draw the regular resources of the police to begin with....Yet each and every time the new surveilliance finds a serious crime it will be extolled as if it were the only answer.But in fact we must make a choice-The police within every boundary of our life or actual American type freedom-I'll live with a small chance of harm rather than have the State as my constant companion...

up until the last half of the last century people lived surrounded by peril and did great, courageous things.

Danger is the spice of life.