Security follows war

Being a nation of fear is not a 21st century phenomenon for the U.S.A.  After WWI we had the Palmer Raids, which hunted anarchists from November 1919 to January 1920.  After WWII and during the Korean War there was the McCarthy Scare, which "named names" (the name of Communists) from February 1950 to December 1954.  Our current scare, which was called at one point the Global War on Terror, has lasted longer than either of the previous crusades and it is much more insidious.  The 20th century campaigns focused on a comparatively small group of people, at most in the thousands.  Our brand of scare tactics focuses on just about all of us.  We are moving closer and closer to 1984.