“From October 2003, I uncovered the following quote, which fully expressed the climate of fear of the time ---"Any democratic government, whether threatened by real or perceived enemies, can succumb to Fascism if its people permit the slow or precipitate undoing, by executive or legislative fiat, of their civil liberties.”

W. Montgomery

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