Yes, and until it affects you directly in a serious and terrible way, you're going to stick your head in the sand and sit by while every aspect of freedom we've taken for granted is stripped away from us one by one. You have the right to be willfully naive - at least for the time being.
Oh goodness, me. I actually do things to preserve and exercise my freedom. What are YOU doing besides posting on FR? What was the last FOIA request you filed? Do you have YOUR FBI file?
I decry the Laz's and NJ_gents of the world that fiddle while Rome burns. That is the real ostrich.
The inexorable power grab of the government already HAS affected me -- and I defended myself. And I won. That doesn't happen in a police state.
Inactive whiners, though, are a dime-a-dozen, police-state or free utopia.