Wake Up America!

Source: NY Times OP-ED, P. A25, "America The Fearful" by Bob Herbert

FM-FM: Comment
This column by Bob Herbert ends with a chilling paragraph that I can't ignore and will include in my Arts FM-FM Blog. "Well, I give you fair warning. This is a road map to totalitarianism. Hallmarks of totalitarian regimes have always included an excessive reliance on secrecy, the deliberate stoking of fear in the general population, a preference for military rather than diplomatic solutions in foreign policy, the promotion of blind patriotism, the denial of human rights, the curtailment of the rule of law, hostility to a free press, and the systematic invasion of the privacy of ordinary people." Go to your library for the complete article. It is not available on the internet NY Times unless you are a subscriber. My reason for quoting a part is to point out that columnists do not shout louder than you can usually manage, but they are shouting. Are you doing something in your community?