History Repeats?

From the Utne webwatch: The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, a.k.a. Patriot Act II, bears a frightening resemblance to Hitler’s Enabling Act. Passed by the German Parliament on March 23, 1933, the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich" effectively meant “the end of democracy in Germany and establish[ed] the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler,” according to an article on The History Place.