You people ever come across the concept of complacency?

Now Naomi Wolf may well be a wingnut but some of this stuff is not *speculative* it is actually in place.

For example you already have a legal mechanism whereby travel is prevented for opaque reasons. You are told that this is for your own good and will only be used on terrorists. But there are already examples of it being used for other classes of people (anti war protesters) and in those cases it has also been shown that there is no legal recourse.

So all you 'can't happen here' people - do you genuinely trust your government so much that not only do you not mind them having these powers but you don't even want to hear that they have them?