"After 4+ years of the administration's whipping up the masses against anything and everything Arabic, what else did they think would happen?"
Good point. Now lets think about this one. Here we are in the USA and our own Government is posting terrorist threats. Is that terrorizing citizens? Kind of absurd to think about it, isn't it?
Not in and of itself if two aspects are met.
1) the threat is real, which in reality they probably aren't. The national government is nothing more than a bumbling bureaucracy. To believe they have stopped each and every threat with no failure is beyond the pale
2) the government allows local authorities to handle the situation as much as possible, which considering the size of the 'threats' the government warns us about makes that aspect unviable.
Are there threats out there? Probably so. Are the threats at the level or number the government tells us about? Doubtful.
I'm just wondering if 'conservatives' will be as gung-ho about 'homeland' security when eventually a Democratic administration comes into power. Somehow, I'm thinking they won't be. Now either the threat is real or it isn't, regardless of the party in power. However if the threat somehow becomes less real when another party is in power, all these current threats are nothing more than partisan posturing to make sure the 'right' party stays in power (sheep vote for whoever protects them the most). As I can't tell the difference between the parties much anymore, I could care less