Have we become too paranoid as a society?

Question

These days you can cause a town to be evacuated by simply leaving a cardboard box on a street corner. Now given the latest incident where the entire city of Boston was shaken up by some Lite-Brite pictures, I think we have. Should we become paranoid to the point where we regard everything that we do not understand as terrorism?

Answer 1

yes we have. Its not the first time and won't be the last.

Look back at history:
1) red scare in the 1920s
2) mcarthy in 1950s
3) 1960s problems,
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