Sad to say, that step will happen - it's just a matter of when, and under what circumstances. IMO, it would be better to do it now, rather than after one or more American cities are nuked and hundreds of thousands if not millions are murdered by the Islamonazis that are enabled by the treasonous efforts of the latter-day Copperheads in today's 'Rat party.
YEAH! We have to suspend freedom so that we can fight the people who would suspend our freedoms! do I have that right? In fact, who needs freedom for all men, anyway? What a quaint idea! The fact is that only the good guys need freedom..., or at least only the good guys DESERVE freedom!
The fact is that liberty means idiots have the right to say outrageous things, wrong things, hateful things, and not have to worry about suffering political reprisal for it. It is, in fact, that freedom that allows you to (among other things) post one of the most blatant stupidities I have seen in a while in this forum and not have the Stasi come knocking at your door.
Our fathers knew that the greatest danger was NOT the Jacobean anarchists (the eighteenth century version of communists and leftists), but government itself.
I despair of the "conservatives" on FR who are nothing but fascists who think they can avoid being spotted as such simply by wrapping themselves in a flag.
cheers
DoP
Lincoln had a Constitutional justification to suspend habeas corpus - the Southern insurrection. Bush doesn't.