The politics are wonky. I don't believe that the Bush Administration is conspiring to create a modern Fascist tyranny, not because I believe that they couldn't, but because it wouldn't be practical. It wouldn't serve a purpose. I believe that V, along with Michael Moore's products, is leftist Alarmism + sheer cynical capitalism. It's a convenient club that Democrats can use to beat their political opponents. That said, a lot of the legitimate, necessary steps to counter terrorism do look like fascism. Police-work, when it tries hard to neutralize law-breaking looks like fascism.
The problem is that for fascism truly to succeed, it can't look like it at first. The other problem is that the outside world really does hate and envy America. I say this as someone who has seen a lot of this hatred and envy first hand. So it's not like 9/11 was an anomaly, America faces real threats. That's what the loud lefties fail to address.
Law enforcement becomes more aggressive, more self-righteous, more power-hungry when it perceives a genuine danger, it also gets that way when it starts to have ambitions and delusions of grandeur. In other words, V for Vendetta could be a timely warning, but it's probably not.
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