The moment my wife and I heard about the attacks in Paris I said to her, &quot;the spooks are going to use this as an excuse to take everyone&#x27;s rights away.&quot;<p>The media response on this was so predictable it was like clockwork:<p>* Conservative media immediately kicks off talking points in regards to, &quot;if more people were carrying guns this wouldn&#x27;t have happened!&quot;<p>* &quot;Where&#x27;s the outrage from Muslims?&quot;<p>* &quot;Outraged Muslims say the attackers aren&#x27;t true Muslims because Mohammed forbids killing innocents.&quot;<p>* &quot;It had to have been Syrian refugees!&quot;<p>* &quot;Can&#x27;t we just bomb the fsck out of Syria?&quot;<p>* All manner of insinuations that all Muslims are dangerous and we should &quot;kick them out&quot; or prevent them entry into the our country.<p>...then, attempting to time things just right the spy organizations all over the world ask for everyone to give up their privacy so they can &quot;stop terrorists&quot;.<p>What we <i>won&#x27;t</i> see in the major news media&#x2F;popular talking heads:<p>* Outrage that despite the billions upon billions invested in spying programs no one was able to predict or stop this attack.  Proving that the vast spying powers granted to governmental organizations don&#x27;t work.<p>* Factual stories pointing out that encryption with back doors won&#x27;t be used by terrorists so it&#x27;s useless against terrorists by definition.<p>* Investigations into <i>why</i> the mass collection of everyone&#x27;s personal details didn&#x27;t work and can&#x27;t work to stop these kinds of attacks.<p>* Informative stories about what every-day people or politicians can do to hurt terrorists and stop terrorism.  For example, there will be no one even remotely connecting the dots between oil usage and terrorism.  Or how there&#x27;s a direct link between a country&#x27;s oil revenues and democracy.