Well, apparently you haven't been getting any of my posts to the Al-Qaeda node, otherwise the context would be clear. As for...
Local authorities, however, can take these differences as meaningful and act upon them.
Yes they can. But should they?
From their perspective? Of course. Increased civilian fear=increased job security. That's the whole name of this game here, and probably a big (though arguably unconscious) motivation for the Iraq war. Peace is bad business for the military industrial complex.
Clue: JBT = Jack-booted thug. Within the cypherpunks list membership, this is usually an identifier referring to people working for the so-called law-enforcement arm of a government -- particulaly one of the federal-level agencies whose personnel believe themselves to be entitled to dictate terms of existence to mere mortals.
Huh? I've been on the list since 2001 and this may be the first I've seen this acronym. meanwhile, I'm the guy who initiated the "Stash Burn" thread amongst a myriad of enabling ideas, whereas the only stuff I've seen come through with your name on it is second hand, Hettinga-esque "reporting" (though Hettinga's has auto-edited himself to the point of being fairly interesting of late). So I can only wonder as to your motivation here, Mr "JBT".
I think you would better serve yourself if you were employed doing something productive as opposed to being occupied doing something that merely seems productive.
This is where I suspect that you're on the Rock. A thought is not coherent merely because you can express it in grammatically correct sentences. -TD