It's gonna happen here too. Just wait and see.
Some in the current administration definitely wanted it...
TIA and all that was going to come with it.
Much of what became the PATRIOT Act, and what was going to be TIA (it's changed names and scope slightly, but it's still on a backburner), was developed under a democrat President, and implemented, or very nearly implemented under a Republican President...which tells me that it will happen.
Anytime both democrat and Republican politicians want something, they will eventually get it, no matter the cost.
Even something like Hurricane Katrina can be used to further these kinds of things...after all, if they had a database of everybody who lived in New Orleans, and FEMA then tracked all of the refugees (which they are trying to do, they were giving out ID #s, etc.), then they would know approximately who was left behind and where they might be.
