They are maintaining their power through fear
This while it has genuine application and potential,
It is a technology that has been stolen from humanity by the inhuman fearmongers.
Technology which has the potential for good or benign application, has been locked in an arsenal.
They are not trying to find terrorists. they are trying to foment a fear of being accused of being a terrorist. with all of it's implicationns
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
A statement from the first inaugural address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Roosevelt was speaking at one of the worst points of the Great Depression.