If this is truly a new precedent, a new lowering of the bar for freedom, than one can chart all of the legislation you list as data-points, and create a simple

If this is truly a new precedent, a new lowering of the bar for freedom, than one can chart all of the legislation you list as data-points, and create a simple graph of freedom. That graph is negative. Expand that chart out, and eventually it does indeed reach Hitler. Though perhaps it's more "Brave New World" than 1984. Color-Coded terror alerts and terrorists-as-wolves commercials seem to have gone out of style and replaced with more subtle phenomenon.