By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - The United States is a long way from 1978 Czechoslovakia. . .but not so far as it was four decades ago. The growing hostility to religion in this country, the disregard for law and its enforcement, the expansion of federal administrative power, the rise of what author Aaron Kheriaty, M.D., calls “the biomedical security state.” These things don’t end well. And the only way we change them, the only “power of the powerless,” is by refusing to cooperate with the lies.