“Of course, the key to sustaining this Security State bonanza – profit for private industry and power for Security State officials – is keeping fear levels among the citizenry as high as possible, as National Defense expressly notes, and that is accomplished by fixating even on minor and failed attacks, each one of which is immediately seized upon to justify greater expenditures, expansion of security measures, and a further erosion of rights:”
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