Forget Al Gore

Let's talk about Naomi Wolf.

While I'm sure you all have seen, or heard of Al Gore's controversial documentary "An Inconvenient Truth", what Naomi Wolf has to say, is far more intriguing, and alarming, than the earth's temperature rising. If you are an avid Colbert Report watcher, like myself, then you have probably seen her as a guest, advocating her new book "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot." Although the title is a bit unwieldy, the premise of the book is simple, America is going through a fascist shift, and here is why.

Without going to much in depth of the book, you can just watch this presentation given by Naomi just last October.



Stephen Colbert does joke about being super-conservative, a certain idea he threw across in his "The Word" section of his show began to pike my interest. Basically, he advocated the government, stretch it's boundaries of what is legal, so the people who are practicing legal activities, are now doing illegal acts. So, in an extreme case, free speech, no longer becomes free, harmful words against the government once protected by 1st amendment rights, are now viewed as terrorist, and become illegal. Another thing that has recently come under the limelight is the "Dont Taze Me Bro!" video on YouTube. Of course a majority of people might just shrug it off, with a chuckle, that some unfortunate college kid was tazed. Funny, maybe? Scary? Yes. While the kid was detained, the reasons for, are alarming. Watching the video, once the kid started to ask about Skull and Bones, thats when the police stepped in. This is a blatant restriction on first amendment rights.

I'm usually not one to give into conspiracy theories,as Loose Change is, pardon my French, a load of bullshit. Honestly, I'll let my good friend Maddox explain this one here. However, Naomi's argument, bases it upon fact, and precedence, a little more concrete than compressed video clips, and declassified government documents(why would the government declassify documents they didn't want the public to know? If you have read George Orwell's 1984, sometimes what the government spits out isn't always the truth). Her argument goes point by point, essentially "Here is what happened in this fascist shift, and here it is again happening in our government." If there is one book you must read, or at least see one YouTube video, check out what Naomi has to say.

As a final thought to this, I'll leave you with a quote from Ben Franklin.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."