OMG! An expert that finally is willing to buck the trend and speak the truth:

United Press International: Terror threat overblown, says expert
"I basically think we are really overreacting to this in a fairly large way," said George Mason University economist Roger Congleton. "I think it would be useful for the press and the government to be reminded that the risks are not as gigantic as we seem to have been encouraged to believe over the last year."

Oh, and I'd like to admit that more people in the United States died as the result of tainted meat in 2001 than died of terrorism. Just something I picked up from the Harpers Index™.