Consider the possibility that keeping potential problems in the spotlight makes it more difficult for them to become a reality. "When" "they" actually start taking over the country, a lot more groundwork will have been done that is invisible to us, and it will be too late. "When they came for the Jews, I was not a Jew, so I didn't speak up..."

Also, I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss what is still happening to people who were arrested after 9/11 and have not been allowed to contact families or legal counsel. Sure, they aren't American citizens. That doesn't mean they're all terrorists. (For that matter, being an American citizen doesn't make one immune from becoming a terrorist either.) Does this make it OK for them to become part of the disappeared? What happens to them makes a great deal of difference to their families. In its zeal to be seen doing something, the Department of Justice is forgetting the last word in its name.

Regards--
Mary Anne