those of us who are part of the silent majority, witnessing the dismantling of our democratic institutions, all in the name of combatting terrorism, fighting the drug wars, and eradicating the 'isms... are going to have to start getting off our collective a$$es and speak out against these injustices; otherwise we're going to wake up one day and realize there is no one left to speak or act for us. when i read something like the salon article -- and there are too many reports like this, to write them off as aberations -- i am reminded of the niemöller quotation:
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -- Because I was not a Socialist.
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Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me." [1]
[1] http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007392