I though this quote from Noam Chomsky was very enlightening and a good jump off point for today. The man is clearly ahead of his time. He voices his fears of America being a fascist state. And while many would concede that 2004's America does fall squarely in the category of a fascist rouge state(Ill try to find a source for this), what is ground breaking about Mr. Chomsky is he was revealing this as early as 1969.

"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression." Source: Introduction to American Power and the New Mandarins(1969), pp. 17-18

Why is it important for a Canadian to worry so much about the USA. While, simple put, they have amassed the largest, most violent, military in the history of man kind and so I feel it is in everyone's best interest to watch this superpower. I watch the movements of this dragon because I am not distracted but the glitz of TVs or the glam of movies nor the scandals of celebrity. I know of many others that feel this way and want change. So stay tuned to this blog for examples of real democracy. The Revolution will not be Televised.