Eternal vigilance: price of liberty... and identity

Rating: 9/10 (2 June 2009)

Changeling is about one of the more positively heroic women (and men, primarily in the person of Reverend Briegleb) of the 20th century... as well as about some of the most despicable human creatures inhabiting what was supposedly, qua free country, inhospitable to petty tyrants in political subdivisions. It points out in a microcosm that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: that if the people do not constantly watch what is happening in their local government (and if responsible civic leaders do not put in the "sacrifice" of their valuable time to contend with the sinister-powerful who wait like Dracula for the slightest dimming of the light), the most egregious crimes against humanity will occur. Ever more severe for happening thru "legitimate" government offices.
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Brian Wright Copyright 2009