Terrorist acts force security responses that themselves encroach on civil liberties

Evidence

Terrorist acts incur high economic costs and impair the quality of life in societies in ways other than through generalized intimidation. The use of airliners as instruments of terror, for example, forced the worldwide adoption of costly electronic surveillance systems for screening passengers. To board an aircraft, passengers have to spend countless hours in serpentine lines and shed coats, belts, and shoes in security routines that proliferate with each new type of threat. Terrorist tactics can quickly outstrip the countermeasures. As the saying goes, for every 10-foot wall you build, terrorists will build an 11-foot ladder. Advanced security systems can provide the impetus for terrorists to devise ever more sophisticated destructive devices, requiring additional intrusive electronic surveillance. Some of these surveillance systems infringe on civil liberties, human rights, and privacy. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2114

Categorization

• XREF: Mechanism of how security-state creep erodes individual rights — connects to claims about authoritarian drift and how perceived threat justifies intrusive policy. — connects to: Countering conspiracy by infiltration threatens civil liberties as Hoover’s did — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 343; Demonstration frequency tracks and helps drive expansion of civil liberties — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1201
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2114