Suppose we have a major terrorist attack carried out by a young Muslim, let’s say from Yemen or Syria. Suppose the attack kills hundreds of people.
Remember the shoe bomber? How many people did he kill? None. Wound? None. The bomb was a dud, yet that shoe bomber panicked the country into a policy in which millions and millions of people must remove their shoes in order to board a plane.
Look at the changes after 9/11. Tourists still can’t drive up to the Wild Creek Reservoir observation area because of “terrorism” fears. We no longer call threats to people threats; they are labeled “terroristic threats.” Our emails are read. We went to war with the wrong country.
As Mark Danner points out in an article in the March 23 issue of the New York Review of Books, Trump is perfectly positioned to take advantage of any new terror attack. He wanted to protect us, but the courts said no. He was defending our borders, but the liberals wouldn’t let him. He wanted a Muslim ban, but Democrats complained.
He will use any terror attack to implement restrictions on the Bill of Rights, on immigrants, on democratic values. He will get his Muslim registry. Who will stop him? The Republican Congress? The Supreme Court, which will have a Trump majority? Public opinion?
Just hope that we don’t have any stupid ISIS followers in the U.S. ready to commit mayhem. How likely is that?
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