Deafening Silence

Like Major General Jalil Khalaf, I find myself wondering, "Where are the intellectuals? Why is everyone silent?" In Basra, General Khalaf's charge, the question has more violence associated with it. However, here in the United States, the question, though perhaps not as serious in consequence on an individual level, is just as serious. Where is the opposition? Why are most of those who oppose the W regime quietly submitting to ever-greater governmental intrusions and controls into the lives of the individual citizen? Why are our legislators not more forcefully opposing the degradation of our freedom? Why is the mainstream news media complicit in the militarization of American society and the reduction of the federal bureaucracy and branches of government into a fascist dictatorship?

If we keep compromising submitting to a bully, he'll keep taking whatever he can until there is nothing meaningful or worthwhile left.