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I am not a fan of Gore Vidal by any means. However, I think the country is teetering on the verge of dictatorship. Power has become so concentrated in the Presidency, over the past decade, that any catastrophe could be used as an excuse for a dictatorial seizure of power. The mechanisms are all in place. The Bill of Rights is a dead letter.

I trust GW Bush, so I'm not so afraid of how he will use the enhanced Federal powers post 9/11. Those same powers in the hands of someone evil like former Pres. Clinton scare the heck out of me.

Vidal is right about the expansion of the federal government in the last 50 years. It has become an imperial power and is now stepping on the neck of every tax paying American. I disagre with Vidal on the USA being wholly the side in the wrong on our foreign policies.

He is right on about us being treated as peasants when we fly. The federalized airport guards treat us badly, despite we are the ones paying the ticket prices to fund this treatment.