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Originally Posted by Anaesthesia
Climate of Fear, a well-known and often used mechanism by those in power to force still more controls upon the populace.
I'm not downplaying ISIS at all. Just saying that governments often abuse these threats in order to gain a higher level of control. Soon you'll WANT every communication to be monitored, and that's a sad state of affairs to me, and a good move from the totalitarians...and they are not all jihadis.
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The amount of information that passes through our security services on a weekly basis is mind-boggling. I am confident that if there was not a threat, we would not be warned. I would much rather be aware of the current intelligence than to go around in ignorant bliss.
I would be interested to see evidence of the purported abuse of warnings to gain higher control in respect of terrorist threats on home soil.