Naomi Wolf on what's happening

Something to think seriously about:

My sense of alarm comes from the clear lessons from history that, once certain checks and balances are destroyed, and once certain institutions have been intimidated, the pressures that can turn an open society into a closed one turn into direct assaults; at that point events tend to occur very rapidly, and a point comes at which there is no easy turning back to the way it used to be.

-- Naomi Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot