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I repeat: Civil war would have broken out.

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Dire suspension of Constitutional protections happens during War:

    Abraham Lincoln ordered thousands of people detained without hearings,
    and opposition newspapers shut down during the Civil War. During
    World War II: the president orders Japanese and such to be held in
    internment camps.

So why do we have all these loss of freedoms during peacetime?

Answer:

Because the Military has never stopped fighting World War II.

#   "Spy Agencies Faulted for War Focus"
#   By Tim Wiener, The New York Times, June 28, 1996
#   
#   American intelligence agencies devote too much time and money to supporting
#   the Military, and FAR too little to understanding the problems of peace, a
#   new and authoritative critique concludes.
#   
#   The report is one of FOUR MAJOR STUDIES to cite the "alarming imbalance"
#   of spending more than $26 billion a year on machines, and less than $3
#   billion on people, and those people spend their time analyzing the
#   information the machines collect.
#   
#   The Foreign Service has been crippled by budget cuts, sapped by the
#   Militarization of intelligence. Diplomats, not spies, should be doing
#   analysis of events in peaceful places.
#   
#   The report, by 19 people from the worlds of espionage, diplomacy, the
#   Military, academia and business, says American intelligence "still has
#   not yet come in from the cold" and is "ill-prepared for the 21st Century."

The Cold War meant that not only were the government's SIGINT operations
to continue via the NSA, they were to grow and grow and grow. The threat
of Nuclear War is what spurred many decades of Cold War and SIGINT.

*   "Time Details Eisenhower Plan for U.S. Under Atomic Attack"
*   Reuters, The New York Times, August 3, 1992
*   
*   A "Doomsday Plan" devised to rescue United States leaders from nuclear
*   catastrophe included underground bunkers, secret rescue teams, an