we're in more danger from the criminals in our own overnment committing crimes, using terrorism and the war on terror and patriotism as an excuse to be more secretive, shift power to the executive, and pass unconstitutional legislation.

i don't even fear the kid with the gun, i fear those on mad power trips using terrorism and fascism and socialism as an excuse to axe the constitution, so a few fat cat elites can profit, while openly talking about world government and giving up sovereignty to a world body, while supposedly supporting a war so iraq can be sovereign (ie, brought into world government, imf/world bank control, an impossible debt which will result in UN peacekeeping. we all know how the UN loves to keep the peace.)

yay democracy! you're not against democracy are you?

the government also can just use the threat of terror, and giving false information on big terrorists they've caught. the guy they announced that they caught a week ago that was the #3 al qaeda, now turns out to be some flotsam and jetsom 'terrorist'....a nobody. you don't hear amsterdam bragging about that anymore...he can always just deny it ever happened, using doublethink. but that still doesn't change the fear and excitement they instilled in people, while not announcing he was a nobody in the end.

this happens constantly. it's propaganda.

there doesn't have to be any real terror, just the never ending threat and reminding of it, unless the dictatorship is meant to take a bigger leap forward.