The goal includes destroying lives and property, but the overriding goal of terrorism is most definitely to cause an overreaction from the government. Why? So we loose confidence in our government and then start to look upon it as the real enemy.
This is what it looks like:
. . . will become more of a menace to its society than the actual terrorists. If we don't wake up, grow up, and end this lunacy, a handful of terrorists will have gotten their way.
What can we do? Hold the Congress accountable every time we go to the polls, keep pressing government to remove unwarranted, overreaching action, and never permit the terrorists to turn us against each other.
How this guy in New Hampshire intends to make his protest is a simplistic expression of this lunacy.
I wholeheartedly agree. But the greatest expression of simplistic lunacy is the sheeplike passivity of most Americans -- including many Freepers -- in the face of government nullification of their basic freedoms. All in the name of security, of course.