Open your eyes. As long as there is poverty in this world you only need religious fanatics, extreme ideologists or just people who wish to profit of the tension between rich and poor... and voila, you have a recipe for disaster.
Agreed. Unfortunately, the "people who wish to profit of the tension between rich and poor" is the rich 'puppeteers', certainly happy that the poor 'cattle' can be so successfully silenced by the buzzword "security". IMHO there's no real governmental paranoia at all, it's just a show to convince the 'cattle' that giving more and more power and control to the 'puppeteers' is in their own best interest
. BTW, a German cabaret artist once put the "real threat" into context quite well, comparing the number of victims of religious terrorism in Europe to the death toll of road traffic, smoking, alcohol, and treatment errors in medical care. Al-Qaeda must be green with envy.
Sorry for OT.