Cracks are beginning to appear in the delusion we are being fed of living in a democracy. What Smedley Butler and Dwight Eisenhower had warned us about, years ago, has manifested itself. No living person has attempted to bring this to our awareness more consistently than Noam Chomsky. Banned from National Petroleum Radio (a prime example of the corporate takeover of public arenas) Noam Chomsky continues, at age 87, To warn us of the consequences of not becoming active.