ABSTRACT
Within hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center and parts of the Pentagon, the word "war" formed the headline of every television station and newspaper. Terrorism shocks Western societies intensely not only because of its violence, but also with the fact that it threatens their very institutions of freedom. It attempts to destroy them directly and purposefully. It is shocking that these institutions have a lot to offer civil society, but provide no methods and tools for the fight against terrorism, as long as we do not want to abolish the institutions themselves together with terrorism. As terrorism disturbs the Western dream of feeling secure, the word "security," as in the Cold War, received a new, important, or nearly miraculous meaning. The war against Islamic regimes is nothing else than a game to distract people's attention away from the real war on terrorism. In their own countries, the people's civil rights were taken away by measures of surveillance.
