David, when the state calls on Americans to report suspicious behavior in the guise of combating terrorism, it is bad enough. But the Obama regime has succeeded in co-opting the cultural left, yielding such frightening propaganda as this: a multi-racial, blue-state friendly commercial for the federal government and for spying on your neighbors. Notice the ad says: “Terrorism is a crime.” It is much more PC and cosmopolitan to use such language and to have such a diverse and friendly slate of mostly youngish Americans reaching out to the people to scare them about terrorism and enlist them as busybodies for the national security state, but this is just warmed over Bush propaganda, given a makeover to appear less partisan and more accessible. I’m beginning to miss the days when building the anti-terror totalitarian state appeared to be the concern of a narrower demographic, and when the voices warning about the bogeymen pronounced it like this: terrists. Now we have college-educated and worldly folk of the iPod generation, and even a guy who looks like he could be Muslim, warning us all to be on the lookout for a killer under the bed. If Obama had the will and desire and opportunity, he could prove to be a more pernicious warmonger than the divisive and confrontational Bush ever dreamed to be.