Have any of you considered this?

"If you were Big Brother and wanted to create a surveillance society, where would you begin?"

"Bacard: I would start by creating dossiers on kindergarten children so that the next generation could not comprehend a world without surveillance. I'd also scare the public with stories about terrorists, pedophiles and drug dealers. In fact, that's exactly what's going on right now."

The real reason we are being demonized is to scare people into surrendering their civil rights and liberties. Convince people that you are trying to help their children and you can do pretty much anything to them.

For those who do not know him, Andre Bacard is an internationally known consultant on privacy.

The entire interview can be found on this site, along with some good stuff:

In the interim, now you know the practical reasons behind our demonization.