[stryker]

Are you kidding? The stage was set with the WOD, which has been used as the rationale for abandoning much of the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 10th Amendments in the Bill of Rights. We already had legalized indefinite detention, roadblocks, random searches, seizure of private property without findings of guilt of a crime, guilt by association (conspiracy), ex-parte hearings resulting in the complete loss of second amendment rights in divorce cases, and a host of other unconstitutional horrors that breath through our "living' Constitution. All through the Clinton administration, I read thousands of hysterical posts about his secret plan to create a crisis and declare martial law and extend his term. Then, when GB gets elected, a crisis does occur and he proceeds to shread the Constitution on a scale unmatched since the civil war, but to a chorus of "well dones," rather than the former hysteria. It seems we have been aptly conditioned to accept the loss of freedom so long as we lose it to a good and effective leader, rather than a moral sloth.