Hentoff’s book has been lauded as the clearest, strongest declaration of defiance against the Bush administration’s attempted rollback of US civil liberties, spearheaded by the Patriot Act. The proposed sequel - Patriot II - would make it possible to revoke US citizenship and, for the first time in history, authorize secret arrests. This book is a call to arms for citizens to fight back and defend their liberties. Hentoff quotes Lance Morrow, who wrote: ‘If Americans win a war…and lose the Constitution, they will have lost everything