As shown on BoingBoing today, apparently a map of publicly available information is a national security threat in the USA. Does this situation not indicate the problem a free society faces in addressing undefined terrorism with all the common sense of Chris Elliot's Panicy Man character from early Letterman shows?

Let's review:

• The terrorists who caused the events of September 11th trained for years to learn how to operate one of the most sophisticated machines ever made, commercial airplanes;
• They needed to forge documents and trick public and private officials to obtain this somewhat (but insufficiently) secured training;
• public knowledge is by definition not secured; and
• the internet and libraries are not difficult to operate.

Does it not occur to the powers that be in the CIA, FBI and others that logistics mapping, if it were to be in anyway useful (and of course it is), is something relatively easy to do which has likely been done long ago by any number of terrorist groups and foreign governments? Does it not occur to them that a society which has govenment agents vetting the facts which are what is in the library and on the internet is called a...ummm...dictatorship?