Arthur Maisel: "I think the problem with the NSA approach (and stop and frisk as practiced in NYC, i.e., with a quota for stops; and high-stakes testing in schools as a way of rating teacher performance; and the way medicine is practiced in the US; and...) is that it is dumb. [CLIP] It seems likely that some innocent people will be swept up and their lives made miserable or even destroyed, and just as likely that some malefactors will escape detection "
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We can start with the worry here about "the innocent" having their lives destroyed. Of course. That is essential to all the many tentacles of the repressive machinery created in the U.S. over the last half-century, beginning with the War on Drugs. None of these programs is intended to catch "malefactors"; all are intended, primarily, to terrify the innocent.
There is, of course, much more to say about all these programs, but as a beginning one _must_ focus on them as state terrorism.
Carrol