If you have a report that conflicts with the OP, please provide it or it's just your intuition we have to rely on as to it's authenticity. I don't find that reliable.

Here is the story that started this thread, and unlike what Buggyone says, it didn't originate with PrisonPlanet.com, even if that mattered. It's from a website called EndOfTheAmericanDream.com. It backs up it's observations with news stories you've probably all read, if you anywhere near well read, newswise.

This website's stories are all backed up with links to major media reports to present a new picture in it's totality.

This is only one story. If you find it compelling, click on the icon at the top to go to the home page and read other reports

25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany

A lot of the debunking is true but there is one particular area where Congress still has an exemption from the laws the rest of us follow. Apparently, they are allowed to do insider trading. They can execute trades on the stock market based on non-public information - like what will or won't be in a fortcoming law.

This is *not* the way things should be.

The same article appears on many of the conspiracy theory sites. The one Katz had was from Prison Plantet.com but Richie's has the same ones. There are a lot of the right wing extremist sites on the Internet. I would be careful about downloading any of them as some have viruses like a Trojan Horse and all have tracking cookies. However, do what you think is prudent.