The U.S. Internal Security Apparatus: A Long History (Review) http://mostlywater.org/us_internal_security_apparatus_long_history_review

The nation described in [State Power and Democracy] is a fearful one. It is a nation whose agents torture at will and whose military wages war for no apparent reason other than profit and power. It is a nation whose political police forces operate as both judge and jury...It is a nation whose judicial system rarely interprets a law different than the [President] and when it does that [President] ignores the ruling. It is a nation where so many of its citizens live their lives under the illusion that [this] authoritarian rule...is somehow protecting them.