You are quite right, and they are already a long way down that road. The electorate in general are unaware.
As I said, he is already running his parallel government. All he needs is a crisis and we will see his militia come out.
And he is setting himself up to turn the swine flu epidemic into his crisis of choice. It is truly frightening.
I think you are right. I think Obama is building a parallel govenment and that when the time is right this government will (almost overnight) fully bear its fearsome teeth and people will suddenly wonder how this all could have happened. Too late.