>>Remember when the police couldn't just walk into a person's house without a warrant? Remember when a person used to be able to consult a lawyer if he/she were detained? Remember when they used to have to charge a person with something in a reasonable time or drop it? In fact, remember when they used to have to have a valid reason for throwing a person in jail - trials, judges, juries, that sort of stuff?
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>>I consider those lost personal freedoms and I wonder what's next; curfews?
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>But don't you agree that these are different times with very different type of threat. The enemy doesn't wear a specific uniform. He can be someone living in your neighborhood somewhere... you never know.

We are reliving the 1950s.

Which, I mention only in passing, was a shameful chapter in our nation's history. We were recently scarred by international events and thought the solution was to pull up the drawbridge and keep the missiles prepared for launch. Those who didn't think "the right way" were ostracized, even blacklisted. And immigrants were called wops, krauts, spics, chinks, ragheads. Do you think it would be a good move to roll it back to that time?

Mike