Straight from the history books, it's one of the last phases of the plan that goes like this:
1) leverage an extraordinary event to scare everyone into supporting emergency measures
2) perpetuate fear and argument on all sides to distract, divide, and conquer public opinion, raising the possibility that these emergency powers might be (necessary|good|here to stay)
3) put on the suits and officially vent dissent to devnull (you are here)
4) everyone gives up and you can peel off the emergency sticker, pointing to your new law as precedent and tradition to uphold
Straight from the history books, it's one of the last phases of the plan that goes like this:
1) leverage an extraordinary event to scare everyone into supporting emergency measures
2) perpetuate fear and argument on all sides to distract, divide, and conquer public opinion, raising the possibility that these emergency powers might be (necessary|good|here to stay)
3) put on the suits and officially vent dissent to devnull (you are here)
4) everyone gives up and you can peel off the emergency sticker, pointing to your new law as precedent and tradition to uphold
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone