Was watching a movie, #24, about a Norwegian resistance fighter in WWII. In the movie he speaks to a group of young people. He asks them if they feel secure. They do. Then he says something startling. "I felt secure. And then I was not".

It happens that fast. People are lulled into thinking that what they have, their freedoms, are guaranteed. This is not the first country in which people are careless with their hard-won freedom. I hope we don't suffer the fate of so many others. It looks inevitable. The institutions of government are now in service of someone who knows how to use them.