Shades of the past?

Canaries:

"...the real significance of Israel, Salman Rushdie and Geert Wilders is not that we ought be fans of that country, that author or that Dutch politician. To tell you the truth I don’t want to live in Israel, have never read Salman Rushdie, never met Geert Wilders. But they are the first cries from the periphery, the first signal from the outermost circle of the herd that the wolves are upon us. We who are still in the middle of the flock make think ourselves safe. Maybe we are, maybe it will take the wolves too long to chew their way to us, but I wouldn’t bet on it."