Is the US government terrorizing the public?

Whenever it's time to renew counterterrorism legislation we hear government officials tell us that failure to renew the legislation puts the country at greater risk of terrorist attacks. In early 2009 when there was talk of prosecuting CIA agents who exceeded the OLC torture guidelines, some US officials (i.e. former CIA Director Hayden) told the public that such prosecutions were unfair and would distract the intelligence community from their job. Basically the message was forget the past or the country will be at higher risk of more terrorist attacks.

Is fearmongering the way representative democracy is supposed to work?

Wars without End. Welfare for Wall Street. Uncle Sam Watches You. Etc. Etc. Etc.

digging tunnels, and just trying to destroy this country.
If they would show just a little patience they could come
here in about 4 years and just take over because the
elected officials and their money men/women will have
pretty much finished the country by then.

For at least 60 years the people that were suppose to be protecting us
have gone into countries and tried to change them to our benefit.
We have gone in and killed, tortured, tried to buy them.
All that is to have any number of people pissed at us. When we go in and take control
of a country we call the people firing back terrorists.

At one time some people gathered to form a better country than they had.
The Mother country sent armies to stop that. We called the people that
fought for a better country Patriots. I am sure the British thought of them as terrorists.

It is hard in this world today to really know who the terrorists and the Patriots are.



A population that lives in fear is easier to control..........

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

The USA Marshall Plan, formation of the UN, and Bretton Woods are the high points of American foreign policy.

The "pragmatic" killing and "collateral damage" of the past 60 years is a recipe for blowback.

Asymetrical war (terrorism) against a high tech invading force is recipe.

I started to get into domestic economic terrorism against the general population but won't.