The Boiling Frog

From Alternet

I'm embarrassed that it took my own ox being gored for me to see the threat posed by the Administration's current restricting of civil liberties. I'm being accused of a serious--even treasonous--criminal intent by a faceless bureaucracy, with no opportunity (that I can find) to refute any errors or false charges. My ability to earn a living is threatened; I speak on civic action and leadership all over the world, including recently at the US Air Force Academy. Plane travel is key to my livelihood.

Anyone who takes lightly to the threat to civil liberties in this country is one of those frogs in a pot of slowly boiling water, as John Graham says. He's finally found the perfect analogy for the situation.