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I'm afraid to disappoint him. Americans have already accepted a ban on smoking and apparently are resigned to wholesale restrictions on their RKBA earlier generations would have deemed intolerable. The government won't be introducing the GPS measure in one fell swoop. The enemies of liberty never work that way. Instead they'll introduce aspects of it incrementally step by step to minimize potential opposition until the opportunity arises to put the final step in place. People will have lost their precious freedom without even realizing they lost it. What the bureaucrats are now testing is just how much they can get away with for the moment. Everything will be dictated by a need to make sure the sheeple accept what's coming to them. In this day and age the American people are not quite ready to rebel against a government that seeks oppress them in the name of kindness.

The enemies of liberty never work that way. Instead they'll introduce aspects of it incrementally step by step to minimize potential opposition until the opportunity arises to put the final step in place. People will have lost their precious freedom without even realizing they lost it.

Amen brother. And we're already a long ways into it. Most recently, we have the so-called USA PATRIOT Act, which is one of the biggest steps we've yet taken towards a Big Brother Police State. If not for 9/11, Americans never would have stood for it. Most of the provisions in it WERE tried previously during the Clinton admin., and were rejected because of these same concerns.

In fact some of the provisions in the Patriot Act, such as sneak-n-peek, are now a permanent part of the US Code (with no sunset), and apply to ALL criminal investigations, not just terrorism. They tried attaching the same provision to a 1996 anti-drug law, but it failed. Now, people are perfectly willing to accept it.

I was pleansantly surprised that people did put the kibosh on Operation TIPS though, but it's a minor victory.

My biggest fear from another terrorist attack is not what it will do to the economy, but the loss of our remaining freedom when Washington happily responds to a cowering (cowardly) public demanding more "security".