Brother's Keeper or Kept by Big Brother

We just keep hearing more and more security. I have touched on this point, previously; but the news of an Itelligence Coordinator? or whatever the new term and definition is, got me thinking about our security progress. Or maybe it's just another part of the process. The reporter this morning, clearly said that there are terrorist cells in the United States planning something again. So, let me get this straight. After 3 1/2 years of new legislation, being inconvenienced and treated as potential perpetrators every where we go, we Americans are not safer? So what are we doing? How is this happening? Did they get in here through all of our intensified security systems? Were they already here before the security enforcement? How do the authorities know there are terrorists here, know that they are planning something, but can't find them? How do they hear all this, if they don't know where the bad guys are? If they've arrived in the last 3 years, surely they didn't get past airport security, I know I can't. If they are sending messages or threats to our investigative people, how much more restriction will be deemed necessary on the law abiding Americans to bring success to the investigation? And while I am asking that, how exactly does placing invasive restrictions on law abiding citizens help catch the lawless terrorists, anyway? I am not suggesting that I understand how these intelligence agencies work, but I do believe I am asking some intelligent questions. In reality, does tightened security mean we are now safer; or simply aware that we are continuously under threat? If all of these extra security measures have failed to thwart the presence, much less the plans of terrorists, how many more will we be told, it takes? That makes something else seem pretty clear. It takes fifteen separate intelligence agencies and one official to coordinate all the information on the law-abiding citizens in our country. What kind of a society are we? Has anyone noticed the scattered headlines regarding cameras at stoplights, tickets in the mail, RFID tags, veri-chips, biometric ID, electronic health records, and suggestions of state uniformity regulation? They aren't frequent enough or necessarily located closely in proximity to seem congruently directional, but with each article or news item, there's a sense of connection. Cameras at stoplights and tickets in the mail mean you are being watched, somewhere there is a monitoring device recording movement in front of a lense. RFID, veri-chips, biometric ID, and electronic medical records means your information can't be stolen by a pickpocket or mail fraud, but it is now safely confined to one or 3 million databanks of someone else's choosing. And, history fans, a regulation that is passed and enforced uniformly among the states, is called federal law.
Wonder how the rest of history would have gone, if Abel had realized sooner that his big brother didn't have his best interests at heart?
And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?