Will it be a crime to say the president is a crook

[roguebanshee]

If critics want people to care, why do they keep using mushy, ill-defined words like "fascism" to describe the dillema?

This turn of events is better characterized as "police state" than fascist; the end of the toltalitarianism is ostensively to protect the people, not the state.
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Ill-defined?

From dictionary.reference.com:

Fascism
a. A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
b. A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.

Seems, to me at least, to be a fairly accurate description of where the US is currently headed. Or rather, what some politicians with varying degrees of influence are trying to make happen.