TSORon - let's play a game here. What do you consider to be type of terroristic activity that you and your agency are protecting us from? When then majority of the American people think of the word "terrorist" - they think of brown skin people in turbans. Simple as that. After all, that's who attacked us on 9/11. (Pardon if I offended anyone with that comment - not my intention.)

That being said, I do realize there are home grown terrorist cells and individuals, like McVeigh, etc. But a quick glance at the "proof" you provided in the link mentioned doesn't show examples of the terroristic activity that the sheeple in this country think you are protecting us from.

- Skin-head gang members beat to death a Hispanic teen.
- A KKK member shot a potential member for not going through initiation.
- KKK members spray painted racial slurs on the side of a thrift shop in WA.
- Several members of the Animal Liberation Front broke into a mink farm and released 7,000 minks.

Do you really want to cite those examples as being a "significant terrorism problem" in the United States? Give me a break. Where are the examples of the Al Qaeda linked folks trying to get on board a domestic US flight with a home made bomb?

But going back to your OP, I will give you the fact that terrorists have won. Why? Because a good majority of this country lives in fear of the next attack.

On 9/23/01 I boarded a cruise ship for a week long cruise to the Caribbean, against the desperate wishes of my mother, who was afraid that something else could happen 2 weeks post 9/11. I told her that if it was my time, it was my time, and that I'd be damned if I was going to stop living my life because some radical extremists thousands of miles away MIGHT decide my cruise ship was their next target.

The majority of us in the TS/S forum also feel this way. We refuse to live our lives base in fear, nor do we want the government propagating that fear, and attempting to "protect" us to the point that it interferes with our 4th amendment rights.