American Dictatorship

Rouge Government is carrying a post exposing the Bush Administration's National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive, that effectively makes the President of the United States a dictator, should a "catastrophic emergency" occur. Section 2b) defines such an emergency in really vague terms:

"Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.

Should Americans be afraid at this point? Yup. Should Americans challenge this trampling of their fundamental rights? Yup. Are Americans afraid of this? Mostly, no. Are Americans going to doing anything about this? Nope. They're way too busy watching American Idol to care.