It's easier to be a successful criminal in a culture of tyranny. Let's go over a few supporting examples.

An underlying assumption behind our culture is that "official" identification (whatever that might mean) somehow increases security. ID is demanded at airports, while driving, dealing with banks, using a credit card, writing a check, hotels, the doctor's office, and more. In fact, we must have ID on us at all times and show it to our government masters on any whim they desire (ref.). Nobody seems to question just how the showing of ID enhances anyone's security.

The demand for ID creates criminal opportunities that otherwise may not exist. As long as an ID can be forged (as anything can with enough effort), a bad guy can buy himself legitimacy and go unnoticed until it's too late. So despite being a Muslim Arab, smelling of hookers and booze, and carrying a Koran onto a plane, because he shows his basement-manufactured ID, he's safe. The Sept. 11 hijackers all had and showed ID.

We all know by now, I'm sure, that guns are inherently evil, unless they're in the hands of any government official who is inherently good. The beauty (for criminals) of the disarmament of the populace, is that only the bad guys will be armed. If a bad guy is willing to disobey the law "preventing" murder, why would he obey a law that "prevents" him from obtaining a firearm? Well, when all the lawful are disarmed, the criminals will have free reign. Had passengers been allowed to be legally armed on 9/11, no hijacking could have occurred.

As internet tracing becomes economically feasible on the large scale, the criminal is again rewarded with opportunities to avoid detection and capture. Now that spam is "illegal" (yeah, like that's enforceable), all spammers need to do is infect others' computers so that they becomes the spammers without knowing it. Now the innocent are framed for the crime.

Cell phone tracing is now commonplace. It's used to rescue the [stupid] lost and point 911 responders to the scene. It's also used by police to trace bad guys. (My favorite is the abuse of OnStar.) Again, the smart criminal can be rewarded by this invasion of privacy. Once the bad guy is known to carry a cell phone, all he needs to do is leave it someplace he isn't, while he commits his crime elsewhere. It just might keep the police looking in the wrong place for long enough for the bad guy to get away.

I love airport "security". Geniuses, the lot of them. Granted, the 9/11 bad guys got "lucky" in actually taking down the WTC, but generally speaking, the people on the hijacked planes are the ones in danger. (There's only so many people that can be congregated in one place at one time in an area small enough to be damaged by an aircraft crashing into it. This puts an upper limit on the damage a hijacked-and-crashing plane can do.) On the other hand, there are many thousands of people in the airport baggage area at most any time of the day. And there's no security! Bad guys can drive a decently sized truck of homemade explosives right up to the main terminal and blow it right there. He can walk into ticketing and baggage with a suitcase/backpack nuke. (See Fox and WND.) Unless he's caught speeding on his way to the airport or runs over a nun in the parking lot, there's nothing to stop him. In addition to killing thousands without even going through any security, he also destroys an important piece of our infrastructure. If such an attack were coordinated at a handful of major American airports, especially with nukes, we could not only lose tens or hundreds of thousands of people, but be significantly (and economically) crippled for several years to come. All the ill-named "security" measures do is provide a false sense of security while real threats are ignored.

If I may borrow a line from Star Wars... The more government tightens its grip, the more criminals will slip through its fingers. All these security measures only make matters worse for everybody, except the bad guys. I've said it many times before and I expect to say it many times again: the lawful need no laws, while the lawless obey no laws.

ADDENDUM

I debated whether or not to publish this piece. On the one hand, I don't say anything that any criminal with an IQ above 80 doesn't already know. I don't provide any specifics, details, plans, or the like. I'm certainly not recommending criminal behavior. However, we live in a new culture where the easy prey are targeted by the wheels of [in-]justice. (Sorry for the mixed metaphor.) Sending me to prison, despite my lack of wrongdoing, would be tempting for the kind of morons we have running our government today, and they'd get to [falsely] claim they "prevented a terror attack" or some such nonsense. I don't relish the idea of being in such a position. On the other hand, I would hate to cave to the pressures of our present tyranny and censor my free speech, especially when it's devoid of any incitement, conspiracy, or criminal intent. In this light, enjoy the realization that our government is actively working to rob us of even common-sense security.