Edited by author 03-17-2003 02:53 PM
Searching your mail for instance, is now entirely at the discretion of the government (no warrant required). You can be held without a lawyer and tried in secret, also the time-honored practice of attorney-client privilege no longer is valid. These are just a few off the top of my head. As ol' Merle said, anyone who hasn't seen it going downhill "hasn't got eyes in their head".