It is all about hegemony. No one is allowed to live free, and no one who resists the empire by trying to live free is allow to live. When I hear tea party friends etc ranting about the loss of rights and freedoms I think about all the people who were never allowed any from day one. The Apache and the Syrians are born with the same innate personhood deserving of respect and autonomy that we are- what makes us so special?