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People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Seen through the eyes of a U.S. soldier, Afghanistan is a scary place.

Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.