FBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists

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25. More like 'potential' threats, you have freedom of speech, but they find it suspicious

and you are even more suspicious when you act on or seek to defend your rights.

Defense of personal rights is a tricky thing. It might involve resistance, resistance could, at least theoretically include violence or acts that would disrupt the economy and power structure.

So, any and all people considered willing or potentially willing to take a stand must be assigned non-zero risks for action consistent with their stand.

In short, the American security state fears all persons within its borders. They especially fear those who insist on realizing their liberties. This is because the security apparats just flat know, without any doubt, that liberty is the terrorists' playground.

In a twisted reality every terrorist act can be argued to have been enabled by freedom, making freedom and acts under liberty potential terrorist tools. The security state seems determined to get a handle on that.