ATHENS-In the days ahead, I would suggest that we all consider the advice of Lesson #1 from Yale professor Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. […] A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."
Tim Stevenson
Athens
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