This warning about a growing police state in the US is coming from the right, probably the libertarian right. I suspect their supporters are drawn from the ranks of the old middle class of shop keepers, small entrepreneurs, small farmers, and other members of the threatened modern middle class of managers, professionals, students from this class, etc--people drawn to the Tea Party.
The past year has been a bad one for democracy, and the Republic that once was the United States seems to live in name only. Because of the extreme abuses of power the Federal government has exercised just in the past year, the people of the Nation have been broken, discouraged and must now only be controlled.In contrast to Occupier activists, they appear to be quite demoralized.