Careful Dave, you'll find yourself under house arrest if you come out with any more seditious talk like that!
Fear is a vital tool of modern government, and people like you are not helping. Without fear they wouldn't have the ability to enforce the most draconian controls on those irritating civil liberties since the Enlightenment. And remember, we have to trust them. After all, the wise people who will be ridding the streets of all those pesky terrorists are the same wise people who told us that Saddam had WMDs and could deploy them in 45 minutes. They tell us that Al Queda is a global Wallmart of terrorism, poised to strike at the heart of all we hold dear at any moment (cf: the Catholics, the Jews, the Bolsheviks, the Anarchists and the Communists and other big bad wolves from the past), rather than a disparate collection of idealogues, loony tunes and Walter Mitty wannabe terrorists, so who are we to doubt?
Are you some sort of pinko cynic or summat? Go back into your bunker and await further instructions. Sheesh, some people...