Where's the thread about America becoming a fascist police state?

[Dauphin]

Abstract legal concepts are generally beyond the comprehension of the average voter. This is as true in the UK as it is in the US.

In the UK the equivalent law wasn't passed without massive public backlash resulting in MP's rebelling against the government and a subsequent watering down of the law.

The Terrorism Act 2006 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received Royal Assent on 30 March 2006, after being introduced on 12 October 2005. The Act creates new offences related to terrorism, and amends existing ones. The Act was drafted in the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, and some of its terms have proven to be highly controversial. The government considers the Act a necessary response to an unparalleled terrorist threat; it has encountered opposition from those who feel that it is an undue imposition on civil liberties, and could increase the terrorism risk: "What more fertile recruitment ground for extremism could there be than innocent young men released without charge after 90 days internment?."[2]

The Act has drawn considerable media attention, not least because one of the key votes resulted in the first defeat of the government of Tony Blair on the floor of the House of Commons, and the worst such defeat for any government since 1978.

[HalfLotus]

The US has been sponsoring terrorist activities in Iran via the MEK since before the Iraq invasion. Just sayin'.