You obviously are not knowledgeable when it comes to security. I mean
security through obscurity? Really? Ever heard of "Security-Enhanced Linux"?
It is developed by the US National Security Agency within the Linux project
(hence distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL).
I would like to understand in what way "respecting people's freedom is
communist... but I guess you simply do not know what is communism. Granting
the user the control over her own computing (in particular not being under
the surveillance of the state) is communist? A free market for support (vs.
monopolies of support with proprietary software) is communist?
Besides, you do not know much about Trisquel either. By taking a slightly
more patient look at the download page, you would have noticed a Netinstall
version that provides, as you wish, a bare system (e.g., no X.org) to build
upon.
Finally, please do not call us "Linux people". We are "GNU/Linux users". And
we do no advocate "open source" but "free software".