Naomi Wolf warns about the 10 steps that despots take to take over and create fascist governments.
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/28/the_end_of_america_feminist_social
And in case you didn’t think it was happening, or you think of it as a whacko leftist conspirancy…follow the links.
Step 1: All would-be dictators invoke a terrifying internal and external threat.
9/11, Sleeper cells, Al- qaeda, Iraq
Step 2: Establish secret prisons
Extrordinary rendition, black sites, Guantanamo
Step 3: Develop a paramilitary force
BlackWater, NSA, CIA
Step 4: Surveil ordinary citizens
FISA bill, Watergate, FBI seeking Information
Step 5: Infiltrate citizens groups
Step 6: Abritrary detain and release individuals
Step 7: Target key individuals (whistle-blowers, outspoken clergy, labour leaders)
Step 8: Restrict the press
Step 9: Dissent as treason
New York Sun, Capital Hill Blue
Step 10: Suspend the rule of law
John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007
When they came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.