The Perfect Plot
Reading the evening headlines about the turmoil that a few people have caused I started thinking about how the threat of terrorism alone has caused our society to self-impose onerous surveillance and invasion of privacy to our own economic detriment. Hundreds of millions of us are choosing (through our elected officials) to suffer untold inconveniences due to the mere possibility that a dozen people might kill a few thousand. Terrorists no longer have to carry out their plots in order to terrorize. So long as they are discovered and we react disproportionately they have succeeded.