Analyst notes:  Here is an article and some analysis comments that came to us via a friend. You would benefit from reading and thinking this one over:

I have no idea who this man is. 
 
Nevertheless, and though I wish he understood a couple basic American civic doctrines--such as that it is not possible to steal or lose rights, only to violate them or suffer their violation--I highly recommend his article. 
 
He has a sound understanding of how evil men steal liberty and the ignorant, idolent, and indifferent acquiesce in their own enslavement.  He understands it in theory, and he's got a very solid handle on the specific American case, namely, the actual history of the past century's destruction of American self-government. 
 
He's got the dimensions, the shape, the context, the modus operandi, and the major responsible players and their interrelationships down cold.  I fault him only for focusing a little inordinately, if understandably, on the bewildering acceleration of official lawlessness that began with the Administration of Bush II, and not quite enough on the long, patient work of evil men to lay the groundwork of decades.  In his defense, it is in the nature of logarithmic accelerations that the beginning of the curve hardly looks like a curve at all.  Americans have been losing their liberty at a logarithmically accelerating rate for a hundred years, but it is in the nature of logarithmic curves that the acceleration from .00002 to .00004 to .00016 to .00064, etc. is noticed by hardly anyone.  Most folks are alarmed only by the final stages, though the logarithm has been the same all along.