Yes, legal protectors like NKVD, KGB, Gestapo, STASI, SS. Very legal and very protective indeed.
You simply can't argue with someone who is brainwashed to believe that the state impossibly can do anything wrong, even if history again and again and again shows the opposite.
I can't see that happening here any time soon though
Gestapo/KGB types I mean
I know you will say I should know better and that it will happen soon, but I just can't see it myself
Hm, let's see. In the US they have the "Patriot Act" and you have something similar in the UK, don't you? Do you know that the Third Reich didn't have a constitution of its own but that they founded its "legality" on a paragraph in The Weimar Republic Constitution called "The Law of Removal of Distress of the People and Reich" (Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich)?
They say it's a war against terror going on, and no-one could be more happy than I, if the Islamist dipshits were wiped off the face of the Earth, but unfortunately it seems more than obvious that it's at least partly also a way to found a global police-state, not like the Third Reich or the Soviet Union but some hybride between Fahrenheit 451 Degrees, Brave New World and "1984".