You are twenty. You were a child when this nonsense first started. Thankfully, sentiments like yours are more apparent today then they were even five years ago. For a good while, the number of people on this very forum that blindly appreciated security at any cost, or at least at the expense of brown people was rather high. Of course, they had no idea that they would eventually be targeted too, but at the time they were only too happy to watch people rounded up in the wee hours, removed from trains, detained in secret locations and shipped off never to be heard from again. They felt safe when american soldiers ran amok in american airports pointing their rifles at any brown skinned individual, be they man, woman or child. Thankfully, good sense has finally seeped into some peoples brains but frankly its too little too late.

By not standing up against the military and security establishment and their propensity to strip the people of their rights and at the same time harm others around the world, there is no one else to blame for the current state of affairs. Things might have been different if people had listened to the lone voices they instead chose to call terrorists and fifth columnists in late 2001. Standing up to the onslaught of politically and religiously inspired propaganda at that time instead of waving silly flags and listening to jingoistic and racist country music ballads would have been the thing to do. Now all people can do, ten years later, is grouse about the freedoms they have lost.