I have mentioned the de facto police state we live in now a few times (http://sol-biotech.com/wordpress/?s=%22police+state%22), but it seems that certain members of Congress want to formally make the United States a police state and do away with the under cover aspect:
Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window
http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being
Very scary stuff and it would be nice if the proposed amendment would come to fruition, but when we are in a society where laws are conceived, written, ‘debated’, and voted on in private, we are already lost. It won’t be too much longer before these sorts of organizations are rounded up and put away. Probably only a bit longer after that when people like me are rounded up and put away.