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My country is small and globally insignificant. Our news reports largely concern themselves with parochial things: even those provided by our nearest neighbour rarely do more than cover a handful of high-noise-content international news.
This isn't high-noise news. It will hardly been noticed, unless people start making noise - a lot of noise.
Most of us don't know it, but we are presently watching a nation teeter on the brink of tyranny.
The process by which a society moves towards fascism is an incremental one, and hard to see unless one steps back and really looks. Because what seemed outrageous last year is accepted as the norm this one: what would once have been unthinkable becomes barely noticed.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-we-there-yet.html
And by the time you realise the process is underway, it seems too late, too hard to stop.
I'm not embarrassed to say I'm afraid for the United States.
And of it.
This isn't high-noise news. It will hardly been noticed, unless people start making noise - a lot of noise.
Most of us don't know it, but we are presently watching a nation teeter on the brink of tyranny.
The process by which a society moves towards fascism is an incremental one, and hard to see unless one steps back and really looks. Because what seemed outrageous last year is accepted as the norm this one: what would once have been unthinkable becomes barely noticed.
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-we-there-yet.html
And by the time you realise the process is underway, it seems too late, too hard to stop.
I'm not embarrassed to say I'm afraid for the United States.
And of it.
