More like 1933 - the burning of the Reichstag (the Twin Towers in the US version) and the passage of the Nazi version of the Patriot Act - the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State and the subsequent Law for Terminating the Suffering of People and Nation, which created the office of the Fuehrer (which combined the offices of Chancellor and President). The US equivalent of the latter is yet to be implemented, but it would not surprise me if Cheney and Rove pulled something of that sort in the next couple of months. Say, they declare the code red (state of emergency) and pass all enabling legislation they need to "protect" the "American people" from a terrorist threat.
Wojtek