Could it happen here?

Many highly visible right-wing talking heads and politicians have made statements that equate calling for an end to the war with treason. That's the unsubtle meaning of "cut and run". Cheney claimed that anti-war groups are doing the bidding of "al Qaeda types". Anne Coulter, the right's most popular pundit, "joked" that Howard Dean was in the top fifty Al Qaeda terrorists. Police departments across the country have infiltrated peace groups under the patriot act, and people who have participated in peace marches have been put on the terrorist watch list. Animal rights monkey-wrenchers were given long jail times under new sentencing guidelines for terrorism, even though they had been careful NOT to threaten human safety. The US "Drug Czar" has called marijuana growers "terrorists". http://www.redding.com/news/2007/jul/13/drug-czar-gives-warning/ The President has asked for and received broadened powers to declare martial law entirely on his own authority. Many believe he has the means and the willingness to create events which would justify that declaration. And if you're STILL not concerned… Haliburton got a half-billion dollar contract from Homeland Security to build prison camps here in the US. The camps are to be used "to support the rapid development of new programs". http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/national/04halliburton.html?ex=1296709200&en=01728da2eba059e4&ei=5088&partner=rss