“Unfortunately, 'we the people' have become so trusting, so gullible, so easily distracted, so out of touch, so compliant and so indoctrinated to the idea that our government will always do the right thing by us that we have ignored the warning signs all around us. This complacency and lack of involvement has pushed us to the brink of a nearly intolerable state of affairs . . . at least to those of us who remember what it was like to live in a place where freedom, due process and representative government actually meant something.” John W. Whitehead