"Our aim is nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands,
able to dominate the political system of each country and the world economy as a whole. Freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that every man will be numbered from birth, and followed as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits". Carrol Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor) in Tragedy and Hope.
Totalitarian societies are surveillance societies. To control people, a government must be able to watch people, to know their every move. In a democratic society, the only way for Quigley's plans to be implemented is to create a sense of crisis so that the citizens demand more surveillance.
So, crises, real or contrived, such as the "drug crisis", the "crime crisis", the "Social Security crisis", the "budget crisis", the "child abuse crisis", etc., become the excuse for greater government surveillance interference in our lives.