From a friend -- I couldn't say it any better...

I would not be filling up your email with this if I did not believe that we are facing a crisis. Let me know if you would rather I did not send such things.

It is time to stand up and say "Enough!"

The United States government has been slowly drifting into a totalitarian regime. Several trends are apparent, but one has gone so far now as to place us on the brink of falling into a chasm from which we will be unable to escape through the democratic process. We must stop this process now!

As reported in the Washington Post,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41475-2005Jan1.html
the administration is moving to implement wide spread imprisonment of citizens who will have no recourse to the courts. We have already seen this being done on a large scale with "terrorists" who were supposedly picked up in combat situations. Now it will be enlarged to any person who the government defines as a "terrorist." This is a necessary step that every modern totalitarian regime has taken. It is a total undermining of the Bill of Rights. If we do not say "No" now, we will be seen by history in the same light as those citizens of Russia, Germany, Italy and elsewhere who did not act when the pattern became obvious.

This is not a partisan issue any longer. Congress on both sides of the aisle must act. Every citizen who values democracy and our inalienable rights must stand up to call on Congress and the media to stop this process.