You assume that people agree with me. Most people are far more interested in security than freedom. Which a valid choice so long as that choice is made for them alone, and they don't make it for me.
I don't have the speaking skills to convince the world of this, but coming of age after 9/11, I have seen first-hand the awesome power of fear.
[edit] So, and correct me if I'm wrong here, you are saying that after seeing the damage that fear has done to your culture (which I would say is far, far greater than the damage done to New York on 911), you then think that you should stir more fear and use it to achieve your political desires. In a just cause, of course. Everyone has a just cause. And your justification is that you don't think you are eloquent enough to convince people by other means? That is a fucking repulsive attitude.
You say you want to use fear to influence the society of which you are a part, because you think that it's general attitude towards security impinges too much upon your own personal freedom and you also don't trust anyone else to be able to deal with honesty. And so you are actually attacking others who are trying to be honest, for not just ramping up the fear in the direction that you perceive would most satisfy your own self interest.
Remind me where the surgeon metaphor fits into all of this horseshit.
I don't have the speaking skills to convince the world of this, but coming of age after 9/11, I have seen first-hand the awesome power of fear.