Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan, for God's sake, is sounding the alarm along with others that a new Executive Order from President Bush completes the criteria needed to quickly implement a police state in the United States of America. All they need is a pretext (another 9/11? A war with Iran?)

Yet does the average American have the foggiest idea? Do the Democratic leaders in Congress realize how close we are to martial law and the total suspension of Constitutional law?

Will, like the Germans in the 1930s, Americans exchange democratic government for the promise of safety and security? Are Americans really that much of cowards? Our nation's founders are rolling over in their graves.