Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
No. It's stuff that has been enacted in direct response to acts of Islamic terror.
Airport security has always been a thing, machine gun-toting police have long been a feature of both supermarkets in Benidorm and football matches in Germany and nobody forces anybody to tell their life stories to LinkedIn or Facebook, do they.

Wars on terror or whtever-have-you is just a McGuffin, imo. In these matters, solutions very often do predate the problem.