>I was mostly responding to a comment from James Heartfield speaks of
>conservative "paranoid delusions" and adds: "Once you buy into the
>exaggerated and absurd fears of the worldwide terrorist conspiracy it gets
>very hard to abstract yourself from the outright assault on people's rights
>that follows."
This says nothing about pretending terrorism doesn't exist. It says that the threat is exaggerated and the fear delusional. That is absolutely true.