Fear of the unknown off the top of my head, and the fact that governments have "unimaginable" powers (true or not) from the perspective of someone in his positi

Fear of the unknown off the top of my head, and the fact that governments have "unimaginable" powers (true or not) from the perspective of someone in his position who is kind of "hiding out" from the system... ...he did not have enough contact / experience with government entities to really know if he would get "screwed" or not.