As with the colonial days, it is the behavior of the government that has turned many against it. I think American bureaucrats are very insular, unwilling to consider that any kind of response to threats is possible other than what they have thought up themselves. I wonder if TSO's even travel. I wonder if they get screened abroad and think mockingly "this will never stop the terrorists". As with so much that is done with America, ingenuity does not begin and end at America's borders. All over the world, governments are doing preventive work. Where else but America is it leading to citizen rebellion? You want to blame that on the CITIZENS? And America has one of the most HATED governments in the world. That, too, has something to do with how the people who have chosen government jobs behave.