Required – and Urgent – Reading for All True Patriots

"We have a mindset, which is that democracy is the resilient rule. Historically it is fragile exception. Democracies take nurturing. They're easy to pull down. The Founders understood that. It's a very dangerous time...

"People really don't understand what fascism looks like. They think it looks kind of like goose-stepping military and barbed wire everywhere. It doesn't look like that. I give examples of closed societies in the book, and after a society is closed, there will often still be a judiciary. There will be journalism. There will be radio. There will even be television. There will be universities and students. Many aspects of the institutions of civil society continue. What happens, though, is everybody knows how far you can go before you lose your job, or how far you can go before getting arrested."

– from an interview with Naomi Wolf on BuzzFlash.com, regarding her new book The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot


When the U.S. Congress starts censuring organizations like MoveOn for exercising free speech as they just did, when cops are tasering people for exercising free speech, when it becomes "normal" for the government to spy on its citizens, when habeas corpus is repealed and when the president can decided someone no longer has civil rights and can disappear and torture them at will... then democracy is not only in danger, it is already sliding headlong down a slippery slope into a fascist abyss, and the people had better wake up and lose their sheeple-like complacency, and fast.

This interview with Naomi Wolf, as well as her new book, should be required reading for all Americans!