The US is now set up for a total police state, and the only thing lacking is the Bush-office order to make it happen.

Read and weep. We have:
1) the Patriot Act, of which Section 106 gives the president the ability to identify any citizen as a suspect without providing any evidence whatsoever, to have that person detained in SECRET detention, with no access to legal representation or family, to confiscate any and all of that person's property, and to dispose of that property in any way and to whomever the president designates. In other words, he can have you disappear for opposin ...