[redangus]

How long will it be before someone comes forward and promises peace and safety to the world's citizens in return for giving up their freedoms. I am not a biblical scholar, but I seem to remember this is kind of the story behind the anti-christ.

[Wormwood]

How long will it be before someone comes forward and promises peace and safety to the world's citizens in return for giving up their freedoms.

No thank you, one Patriot Act is plenty.

[RightWhale]

We might be about there. Still a ways to go, but it is possible to see this evolving that way. It would take more than promises, though, and at present no one is even promising anything.