Dead is dead. Destruction is destruction. Seventy-eight innocents massacred at Waco. Fifteen-hundred farmers businesses destroyed at Klamath Falls. Government mandatory gas-mileage-ratings; how many deaths and destructions due to less safe cars has there been? In the name of what?...An oil shortage?
It's an illusion.
The negligible amount of oil that has been conserved, at the cost of human lives and millions of dollars in damages, more than that amount of oil could have been retrieved from Alaska and several offshore oil fields, if the government didn't make drilling in those areas illegal.
The EPA and endangered species act are the decrees that "legitimize" saving sucker fish and oil at the expense of innocents and their businesses. That's just the tip of the parasitical iceberg. Individuals and businesses that produce value/profits for individuals and society that government destroys.
Which is the worse of two evils? A mass-murder that kills in broad daylight, or the value/profit destroyer and mass-murderer that operates under a veil of legitimacy, when in fact it is intentional deception that the politicians and bureaucrats wield to gain unearned/usurped paychecks and power?
What is the primary tool of terrorism? To instill fear. Most Americans fear the IRS. That fear is well founded when a person considers that the IRS is the strong arm that demands the citizens pay the protection money the politicians and bureaucrats will dole out to whomever they deem needs it more than you and every other taxpayer. Skimming a cut of the money for themselves before doling it out.
Two-thirds of government is parasitical. That means for every dollar that taxes are reduced, more than a dollar is gained by the citizens and compounds its value into the future. But we came to this conclusion by the opposite. For every additional tax dollar the citizens lose more than a dollar. For whatever citizens gain from their tax-dollar is increasingly diminished by government expanding its power and reach. Creating more illusions that cost more taxpayer dollars to fund and destroy more values/profits, businesses and benefits that individuals, society and humanity rightfully earned.
The one third of government that is valid is its protection, self-defense and security functions. Military, CIA and FBI. Most unfortunately, Clinton partially deconstructed the purpose of those agencies and replaced them with political correctness. He had the help of the media/academe/celebrity stooges.
The American people desperately seek a solid foundation to hold on to. They want the terrorists and terrorism destroyed. They give the government their full support. But also comes Americans full support of ending socialist-terrorism by government against its own citizens.
How might that happen? Perhaps when the government claims rights for U.S. citizens of Middle-Eastern decent. Piling that illusion on top of rights for Blacks, Hispanics, lesbians, gays, non-smokers, humans, plants and animals, employees, patients, the criminal's rights (but seldom the victim,) the elderly ...but for all that a person will hear only one out of a thousand times the mention of individual-rights/property-rights. One mention of individual rights for a thousand mentions of a dozen other rights -- illusionary rights.
That is a Grand-Canyon size disconnect/void because, when the smallest minority, the lone individual's rights are protected, all other larger-than-one minorities are protected. Individual/property rights is the solid foundation Americans seek. They will find it. And then implement a system of government that abides it.