Conversely, many of her colleagues scoffed at Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, when she retorted, ``My fear is that we may go to the point of changing the culture of America, the First Amendment protections and the Fourth Amendment protections,'' in response to Attorney General John Ashcroft quest for more power to turn the land of the free into an apartheid nation. Freedom loving Americans, no doubt, find it very difficult to believe that America could ever become a fascist nation. Nevertheless, history certainly records that frighten citizens have made the same mistake?they?re currently making to allow our hawkish government to invalidate our constitutional rights -- in the past.