They always have that. There's already law enforcement and the military, the security forces, that are more or less under their control.
Why stop at that? They've already been given the guns, ammunition and training which they can use to kill me. In principle there's nothing preventing the police from storming my apartment and shooting me to death at any moment, for any or no reason at all.
Of course we cannot prevent psychotic police officers from doing something like that with absolute certainty, anymore than we can principally prevent the entire state bureaucracy becoming stricken by a collective psychosis. The same thing applies to some rogue agent acting on behalf of the political leadership of this country.
But there are plenty of things we can do to lessen to odds of that happening, or at least limit the impact should such things occur.
There are plenty of different preconditions for a genuine and well-functioning liberal-democracy to exist. There's a reason why simply having democratic elections rarely if ever turns a country that has been under a authoritarian system for hundreds of years into a liberal-democracy.
Above all else is the simple fact that enough people can't just accept or tolerate the status quo, they have to actually believe in and defend it. That's why winning over the hearts and minds of people is so crucial. They have to be willing to up with hardship and not simply seek refugee in the empty promises of authoritarian demagogues or totalitarian extremists.
I find it very strange that you seem to completely miss the point. It's exactly this kind of thing that I'm trying to prevent!
It's almost certainly too late to stop them with the usual constitution means when they begin to prevent any criticism. That's the point where liberal-democracy has given way to authoritarianism. That's why we have to act preemptively before its too late.
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