You might want to have a look at who 'they' thought the terrorists were before 9/11: http://web.archive.org/web/20010611142635/http://www.fbi.gov/congress/cong

You might want to have a look at who 'they' thought the terrorists were before 9/11: http://web.archive.org/web/20010611142635/http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress01/freeh051001.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20010611142635/http://www.fbi.gov... Note how all the terrorist incidents of 1999 were by animal rights save the world types. Al-Qaeda gets a mention but it seems that the feds were annoyed by the 1999 'Seattle Riots' that went with the ruling elite meeting that went on there for some three-letter-acronymed body (IMF, WTO, who cares). The Terrorism Act 2000 (UK) was introduced into the UK when terrorism wasn't widely regarded as a problem. However activities by the likes of Reclaim The Streets were a problem, hence the need for legislation that was so broad that domestic dissent could be criminalised as 'terrorism'. With the Miranda incident they had all the legislation they needed.