Hold Onto Your Underwear

This article by Tom Engelhardt is over a year old but provides important perspective on the media's propensity to hype threats of terrorism since 9/11. It's important to realize that Americans are in much greater danger driving their cars, from alcohol or tobacco, E. coli bacteria in food, fires, domestic abuse, murder or the weather than they are from terrorism. The "War on Terror" has created a new industrial-complex and the media and politicians exploit the public's inherent fear of terrorism relentlessly.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/664