Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don't have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to do is start plotting an attack and - regardless of whether or not you have a viable plan, weapons or even the faintest clue - the media will aid you in terrorizing the entire population.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.