How alarming are these times?

Professors are being denied tenure for voicing political views.

Companies are spying on American people at the behest of the government.

Habeas Corpus, an important instrument for the safeguarding of individual freedom against arbitrary state action, has been abrogated.

This administration is THE most secretive in American history, their secrecy paling against even the Nixon administration’s crimes.

Control of the airwaves, which by law belong to the American people, is being consolidated into fewer voices than ever.

Our government is performing torture, and Congress has refused to do anything about it.

Our government is planning yet another war, while being engaged in one war that has never been completed and another that has been a fiasco from the start. Neither of the wars, and one suspects the third as well, were authorized by the Congress, which has the sole responsibility to do so, as per the Constitution.

Dissent, an essential characteristic of American democracy, and which, many would argue, is the essence of patriotism, has been stifled by the media and ridiculed by the government.

The facts of global warming have been censured and/or denigrated by government officials.

Fear is an essential tool of control used by this administration.

Separation of church and state is swiftly becoming a thing of the past.

America has more people imprisoned per capita than most, if not all, “First World” countries.

Our government is an open ally of countries who act against the interests of the American people.

This administration has regularly rewarded officials for job performance that can only be called abysmal, and continues to operate with cronies with no other qualifications than loyalty.

The American people are so distrustful of the veracity of election results that they are voting in numbers that can only be called embarrassing.

The times are so alarming that, despite this blog being possibly the least-read blog on the internet, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next knock on mydoor turned out to be the prelude to my disappearance.

I don’t WANT to be a martyr, mind you, but if saving America for Americans takes my disappearance for such relatively mundane ramblings... well, in the words of our Mis-Leader-in-Chief, “Bring 'em on!”