It is my sincere opinion that “to know is to act.” What that means in the United States right now is this. Either you understand that our most basic liberties are under attack and in danger of disappearing, and you are fighting against it with everything you've got, or you don't understand it, or you actually support it. If you accept the premise that the military detention provisions in the NDAA represent an immediate threat to American freedom, there is no excuse for not being involved.

Of course, the media has done everything within its power to obscure that fact, using the method of “false objectivity.” False objectivity is when they report a fact in such a way as to make it sound like a mere opinion, thus weakening or discrediting it while maintaining the illusion of neutral and objective reporting. Here's an example: “protesters claim that the NDAA will allow for the military detention of American citizens.”

That's not a mere “claim” by a handful of overheated protesters. It's a simple fact. Reporting it as a “claim” is just a form of propaganda. When you buy into that propaganda, you are being fooled- but at least if you're being fooled, you have that much of an excuse for not fighting back.

If you aren't fooled, though, no excuse is possible. You're busy, you have other obligations, you're worried about the potential consequences- all those things are true for most of the people who are involved right now. If you sit back and just watch them take our freedoms away, you will regret it bitterly when it is already too late.