"When they told us it was necessary to monitor television and radio programs, scrutinize internet activities, track book, magazine, and newspaper purchasers, and record private phone conversations in the name of national security, I didn’t speak up because I believed them. When they came for radio and television political commentators who had expressed opposing points of view, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a commentator. When they came for writers of books, magazines, and newspapers who had expressed opposing points of view, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a writer. When they came for writers who had expressed opposing points of view on blogs and websites, I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a blogger and didn’t have a website. When they came for me because I had watched television political commentators, listened to radio programs, read books, magazines, newspapers, internet blogs and websites offering opposing points of view, and had e