Taiwan. When I first lived there, the ruling party (which is once more the ruling party, after a change of ruling party in between) used political assassination and other terrorist acts to keep its grip on power. During the late 1980s, the common people stopped being afraid there, realizing they outnumbered the secret police, and peaceful mass demonstrations and continual efforts at forming opposition political movements and a free press when both were formally banned eventually resulted in free elections and a change of government. Here in the United States, and all over the world, that should be our response to terrorist threats: keep on seeking more freedom and more exposure of truth. Don't let the terrorists scare you from exercising freedom, and don't let your own government scare you from exercising your freedom while it responds to terrorists.