[Net-Gold] Naomi Klein & Won't Back Down

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Naomi Klein & Won't Back Down

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/10/11/12187/#more-12187

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Won’t Back Down
By: Naomi Wolf
(Naomi Wolf is the author of The End of America:
A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot.)

I wish people would stop breaking into tears when
they talk to me these days.

I am traveling across the country at the moment —
Colorado to California — speaking to groups of
Americans from all walks of life about the assault
on liberty and the ten steps now underway in America
to a violently closed society.

The good news is that Americans are already awake:
I thought there would be resistance to or disbelief
at this message of gathering darkness — but I am
finding crowds of people who don’t need me to tell
them to worry; they are already scared, already
alert to the danger and entirely prepared to hear
what the big picture might look like. To my great
relief, Americans are smart and brave and they are
unflinching in their readiness to hear the worst and
take action. And they love their country.

But I can’t stand the stories I am hearing. I can’t
stand to open my email these days. And wherever I go,
it seems, at least once a day, someone very strong
starts to cry while they are speaking.
In Boulder, two days ago, a rosy-cheeked
thirtysomething mother of two small children, in soft
yoga velours, started to tear up when she said to me:
`I want to take action but I am so scared. I look at
my kids and I am scared. How do you deal with fear?
Is it safer for them if I act or stay quiet? I don’t
want to get on a list.’ In DC, before that, a beefy,
handsome civil servant, a government department head —
probably a Republican — confides in a lowered voice
that he is scared to sign the new ID requirement for
all government employees, that exposes all his most
personal information to the State — but he is scared
not to sign it: `If I don’t, I lose my job, my house.
It’s like the German National ID card,’ he said quietly.
This morning in Denver I talked for almost an hour to
a brave, much-decorated high-level military leader who
is not only on the watch list for his criticism of the administration — his family is now on the list. He has
undertaken many dangerous combat missi ons in his
service to his country over the course of his career,
but his voice cracks when he talks about the possibility
that he is exposing his children to harassment.

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Sabin Bailey

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