There were plenty of good, progressive ideas enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the American Bill of Rights. Quite advanced for the time. Some of those ideas had been inspired by the political and social ideals of the American Indians. Some had come from philosophical notions put forth by European writers. Some were the brainchild of social radicals among the founders of the new USA.

All of those people, those founding fathers of America, would be hated by the neo-conservative forces that are governing America if they were alive today...and they would probably be called "communists" or "terrorists" or something like that. ;-)

You see, the neo-cons are trying very hard to forget that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights ever existed. It gets in their way too much, as their desire is to implement a police state.

One way of getting around such legalities is to declare a supposedly temporary "state of emergency" and grant the executive office emergency powers that override the normal laws. That's what Hitler did after the burning of the Reichstag. That's what Bush would like to do. 911 helped these guys implement their foreign war plans, but it wasn't enough to do the whole job of taking over domestically. Something bigger and more shocking is needed for that...

Something considerably worse than 911.

Consider the possibilities. When and if it happens, its real architects will be the men you elected to power, but they'll blame it on someone else.

"terrorists"

And you'll probably buy it too.