You know I'm an ardent civil libertarian. I don't believe in slowly ceding our basic rights and privacy for a false promise of security. These same people are among the first to excuse many breaches of our other rights on the grounds that "only the guilty" have something to fear. To misquote FDR: The only thing we have to fear is the police state itself. Which, given the original quote, is amusing since the police state is built on fear. Either through direct fear of the state or a whipped up false sense of fear promoted by the state. We're in the second now. I wonder how long 'til we the experience the first. In some ways we already do. People always go on about "not letting the terrorists win". They're too ignorant to see that we're doing just that.