Hm, this presupposes that there is a group of people in charge of these policies who are rational, acting in your best interest and agreeing with you on what is a threat.
Definitely -
the people who devise these policies are rationally malevolent.
Their own best interest is to cage others at whim.
and they decide for media "what is a threat".
Suppose for example that those who set up the Georgia Guidestones are in charge. If you seek to reduce human population to a tenth of what it is, a "threat" is a very different thing
