What makes us safe? Who has power? What is safety?

Marcus thinks to himself: “I’d never really believed in terrorists before—I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn’t really represent any risk to me” (p. 41). He later muses: “I didn’t know what a terrorist looked like, though TV shows had done their best to convince me that they were brown Arabs with big beards and knit caps and loose cotton dresses that hung down to their ankles” (p. 43). These statements lead to the questions: a) What makes us safe? Who has power? What is safety? – Consider these … we will discuss them.