Fear is always used to control. When the schoolyard bully wants your lunch money, he doesn't politely ask you to turn it over, he threatens violence if you don't, (sound familiar? ).
Governments know that people will not voluntarily hand over their rights. Rather than take the frontal, schoolyard bully approach, they create a seperate danger. Terrorists, communists, criminals, drugs, you name it and they'll use it to frighten you into surrendering your rights.
Power exists, it's only a matter of who holds it. If one party wants is but doesn't have it, they must take it from another party. The government of the United States was formed with very limited power. But the people having the power made it too diffuse to be of use to those who wanted to be in charge, so the best way to get the power was to control the government and concentrate the power there, taking it from the people. This is what's been happening for the last 50 years.
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