10 Steps To Establishing A Dictatorship

This Is Material I Came Across By A Lady Named Naomi Wolf. It Should Be Required Reading

These Are The 10 Steps To Dictatorship:

1. Invoke A Terrifying Internal and/or External Threat. This threat can be real but exaggerated, or complete and utter fantasy.

-Stalin talked about "sleeper cells" ( where have you heard that one before)

-Pinochet enormously exaggerated the real threat of armed insurgents, and also produced fake documents detailing an imminent plot to assassinate leaders

-The US talked about Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" which was a total lie and used false allegations of uranium purchases by Saddam to invade Iraq

2. Create A Secret Prison System, Outside The Rule Of Law,Often Military In Nature w/o Due Process, Usually Involving Legalized Torture

-Begins with marginalized groups that the public does not identify with, then gradually begins to target "enemies of the state", ie. official opposition, outspoken clergy, journalists, etc.

-The President of the United States currently has the power to classify you as an "enemy combatant", strip you of all your rights, place you in solitary confinement, prevent your family from visiting you, torture you if they feel it is warranted, and hold you up to 3 years without charges!!

-FEMA Detention Camps have been built all across the country in the last number of years, some with the capacity to hold up to 2 million people! Halliburton received a multi billion dollar contract in 2005 to build a vast system of these prisons. Some reports claim up to 800 of these prisons across the country. Currently they sit empty, how long till they are filled, and in what capacity?

3. Establish A Para-Military Force To Intimidate Citizens Into Accepting The Dictatorship, and Those Citizens Who Would Resist.

-Italy was a democracy prior to Mussolini grabbing power

-Germany was a democracy prior to the Nazi Regime grabbing power

-Russia was a free society until Stalin assumed power

-The US Government now has the right to deploy the National Guard within the country for virtually any reason, even though the use of the military for law enforcement is illegal, and violates the Posse Comitatus Act.

-Certain military units comprised of up to 30,000 soldiers have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan to be on hand for possible deployment within the US as well.

4. Create A Surveillance Apparatus Aimed At Ordinary Citizens

-it is currently legal for the US and other governments to spy on and invade an ordinary citizen's email, and phone conversations for NO reason at all. Does that strike you as a free society?

-lists such as the "no fly list", the "watch list" are compiled of dissidents, eventually restricting job opportunities, welfare benefits, etc.

5. Arbitrarily Detain & Release Citizens

6. Infiltrate Citizens Groups

-establishes an atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion between ordinary citizens, effectively preventing an organized and united opposition

7. Target Key Individuals

-a classic Goebbels tactic from Nazi Germany

8. Restrict The Press

9. Classify Criticism Of The State As Espionage

10. Classify Dissent Against The State As Treason