Security guru Bruce Schneier suggests that the cloud of fear being cast over us about the dangers of terrorism is nothing more than a war on anything different--unorthodox, unusual, or unexpected--marginalizing anything out of the ordinary and instantly categorizing it as a terror threat.

"We've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested—even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong."