> Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?
The irony of this is that the most strident critics of such authoritarianism are precisely the kind of people who mindlessly characterize these things as "our freedoms".
And no. The IC is not under such a misconception. The IC regards terrorists as enemies precisely because they know the terrorists are less interested in our magical "freedoms" and more in the reality of how the military and industry will happily, say, invade Iraq to get what they want.
The privacy debate is just a way to keep us from discussing the larger problems.
The irony of this is that the most strident critics of such authoritarianism are precisely the kind of people who mindlessly characterize these things as "our freedoms".
And no. The IC is not under such a misconception. The IC regards terrorists as enemies precisely because they know the terrorists are less interested in our magical "freedoms" and more in the reality of how the military and industry will happily, say, invade Iraq to get what they want.
The privacy debate is just a way to keep us from discussing the larger problems.