Please, teach me how, oh master, for I do not have the patience on my own!
Here's my substantive response (and I even know what that word you used means!)
While I realize we have lost some freedoms, ex: scrutiny at airports and submitting to the tactics of the NSA, I believe that the threat we face from terrorists is real, and I want my president do do all that can be done. The murder of nearly 3000 innocents on 9/11 convinced me that the threat is real, even though our nation missed the threats in several previous attacks on our nation and our interests abroad.
If I'm just being a chicken little, and all my freedoms are slowly being denied, guess I'll see you in the resettlement camp. (I'll be the short, round, gray-haired female with the flower in my lapel.)
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
-- Benjamin Franklin
You missed the point of my post. Anyone can threaten us, but that is not the same as someone being a threat to us. I can tell you I'm going to yank your ear, but since I don't know who you really are or where you are located, I am really no threat to you. The Fijans can hatch a diabolical plot to attack San Diego, but they are hardly a plausible threat, and that hardly merits a response from us that includes locking down the country under onerous restrictions.
As well, you missed the fact that I said that ABC is engaged in advance shilling for the Democrats when they launch their very own initiatives to roll over your freedoms in the name of saving you from something, anything. You ain't seen nothing yet.