Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.
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Many of the benefits from keeping terrorism fear levels high are obvious. Private corporations suck up massive amounts of Homeland Security cash as long as that fear persists, while government officials in the National Security and Surveillance State can claim unlimited powers and operate with unlimited secrecy and no accountability.
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
The key battleground in the war on terrorism, therefore, is in the minds of the American public.
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.
Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.
I'm saying that there's way more to 9/11 than mainstream media and our government have told us.
The threat of terrorism is not stronger than the will of the American people.
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.
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