Cursor.org: our eroding civil liberities

a good snapshot today of views about the eroding of our civil liberities in a time of a non-existant war:
Cursor.org - : "McGovern also accuses congress of 'Bowing to the Police State,' and Balkanization describes the twin dangers of a national surveillance state as 'national security displacing the criminal justice system and the criminal justice becoming increasingly like the national security system."