An announcement overheard at an American airport over the holidays:

The current threat assessment level, as established by the Department of Homeland Security, is orange. We ask for your assistance in reporting any suspicious behavior, or unattended baggage, to law enforcement or TSA personnel immediately.

A new sign posted at BC Ferries terminals:

SECURITY NOTICE
This facility is currently operating at MARSEC LEVEL 1. Entering this facility is deemed valid consent to security screening or inspection. Failure to consent to security measures will result in denial or revocation of authorization to travel.

Slavoj Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, p. 47:

Is this not the state we are approaching in developed countries around the globe, where this or that form of the emergency state (deployed against the terrorist threat, against immigrants, and so on) is simply accepted as a measure necessary to guarantee the normal run of things?