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read the full article on actofrage.com
actofrage.com/2009/04/10-steps-to-fascist-america-naomi-wolf-explains/

Tell me what you think about this. This is not a very new article, I have tried explaining Naomi Wolf's theory (2 years old) and added some videos and links here and there to support the sources she's referring to.

Any Americans in here that have the feeling this story has some credibility?

Step 1: Introduce an enemy causing domestic havok

Step 2: Create a new kind of prison to torture those involved in the attacks in Step 1

3. Form ´legal´ beat-em-up gangs to terrorize citizens

4. Spy on thy neighbour: automated, domestic espionage

5. Infiltrate or thoroughly investigate anti-government groups

6. Scare people by investigating and arresting key opposition figures

7. Prohibit dangerous academics and artists from sharing their opinions

8. Control the media

9. Indoctrinate people by using big words for small things

10. Martial law


again:
read the full article on actofrage.com
actofrage.com/2009/04/10-steps-to-fascist-america-naomi-wolf-explains/

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  1. satijournal
    Sounds like the Bush administration.
    1. DuckbillJones
      well, according to Naomi Wolf it is just like that. Scary thing is she's comparing it to how the fascist states of nazi germany in ww2 and communist russia gained power
    2. jeremyjanson
      Considering that Naomi Wolf is still healthy, wealthy, and wise, and not being pecked by vultures in some Nevada desert.... Yeah, I'd say she's a liar.
    3. elitethinker
      Bush is not dangerous because everybody's watching after him. When Bush wanted to give money to the bankers everybody protested. It's strange that when Obama does the same manyfolds nobody protests any more whereas the idea comes from the same banksters lobbying.

      People are just blindly following leaders they don't see that their country is not governed by their president but by its financial elites.
  2. willrhodes1961
    You don't know how lucky you are.

    If you want to see a real fascist, police-state in the making, just look toward the UK.
    1. DuckbillJones
      can you name some examples?

      It's an interesting subject
    2. michaelwillow
      You are so wrong abt UK. Just look at the Greek example where the police shoots teenagers and immigrants. Shameful
  3. jeremyjanson
    Here's mine:

    1) Convince people that individual freedom has no values and that individuals have no value.

    2) Share your ideal plan for humanity, and claim that we must unite for the public good.

    3) Convince the populace that those who are against you are not worthy of respect.

    4) Begin using teenagers for slave labor.

    5) Institute mammoth regulation of business and begin trading government-owned corporations as stocks.

    6) Claim that the ice caps are melting and that all human behavior should be redirected towards preventing this.

    7) Convince people to worship you, and speak like a God.

    8) Use the tax code to break ex post facto and punish people you don't like.

    9) Substitute "Hope and Change" for any kind of substantive debate.

    10) Let the games begin!
    1. drjay1966
      1. Believe everything Hannity tells you.
      2. Believe everything Glenn Beck tells you.
      3. Believe everything Limbaugh tells you.
      4. Believe everything Ann Coulter tells you.
      5. Believe everything Sarah Palin tells you.
      6. Believe everything Michelle Bachman tells you.
    2. jeremyjanson
      1.Don't answer questions

      2.Don't listen

      3.Resort to what Micheal Moore tells you to say.
    3. drjay1966
      7. Whatever you do, don't look up "fascism" in the dictionary.
    4. jeremyjanson
      From Merriam-Webster dictionary:

      Fascism - n. a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition



      "Severe economic and social regimentation"

      "Exalt nation above individual"

      Yup. Sounds Democrat.
    5. TonyB
      then repeat

      1. Believe everything Hannity tells you.
      2. Believe everything Glenn Beck tells you.
      3. Believe everything Limbaugh tells you.
      4. Believe everything Ann Coulter tells you.
      5. Believe everything Sarah Palin tells you.
      6. Believe everything Michelle Bachman tells you.
    6. jeremyjanson
      Is it just me or do liberals attempt to win arguments by being stupid? Of course I could be making snap judgements here, or it may just be that the sample at BC are exceptionally low caliber.

      There is NOTHING about conservatism that supports autocratic dictators, exalting nation above individual (far from it, we tend to go the opposite direction while you guys are off mandating community service hours out of our young and forcibly redistriubting wealth), forcible suppression of dissent (the worst we will do is laugh at you), or severe regimentation of any sort. In fact, we don't like regimenting anything! We won't regiment anything! We let it ride. YOU HAVE NO ARGUMENT.
  4. Agit8r
    “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”--James Madison

    “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”-id
    1. jeremyjanson
      Interestingly, Franco actually took over without any foreign threats, as did Salazar in Portugal. Foreign threats and military takeovers are really more attributes of authoritarian dictators and sometimes communists. And anyways, it is out of my distrust for those in power that I resort to a philosophy that encourages a small, unobtrusive government.
    2. Agit8r
      I'll pass that along to Mr. Madison
    3. jeremyjanson
      Mr. Madison would support a small, unobtrusive government. Actually, pretty much all the founding fathers would, even Hamilton, by today's standards.
  5. elitethinker
    All wrong: YOU are your worst ennemy
    You are totally complacent and only jerk to what the MASS MEDIAS persuades you to do so.

    If not dictated by the mass medias your mind would not even wake up at the most obvious and outrageous nazi declaration made your top most leaders:


    OFFICIAL DOCUMENT From Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century
    A Report of the Project for the New American Century (Year 2000)
    (PNAC (Project for a New American Century) is a group founded in 1997 by - among others - Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (later President of the World Bank), arguably the ideological father of the group.)
    tinyurl.com/pnacreports

    “… the art of warfare … will be vastly different than it is today … “combat” likely will take place in new dimensions … advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”


    You can check the document is genuine yourself by downloading the pdf here:
    tinyurl.com/pnacreports
    as I have done myself to make this screenshot of the page.
    1. jeremyjanson
      Genotypes? As in specifc DNA's? So, basically, murder of families?

      Yeah. Sped read some sections and it looks like the gist (insofar as there is one) of this report is that we are going to save money on defense by resorting to genocide.
  6. elitethinker
    So don't make me laugh you all with your democratic stance: you really don't care so much !
  7. DuckbillJones
    so has anyone read the full article on actofrage.com? It goes a whole lot further than just Wolf's 10 step theory. She based it on how the fascist states in history look real similar to what's going on now
  8. exit2013
    I think that's Naomi Klein you're referring to. Author of 'Shock Doctrine'. Don't mean to burst bubble!
    1. DuckbillJones
      No, I'm talking about Naomi Wolf. (naomiwolf.org/)

      Please read the full article on actofrage.com
  9. elitethinker
    Do you know ?

    Patriot Act I was not even available to read or study before it was voted:
    www.elitethinker.com/2009/05/patriot-act-i-was-not-even-available-to.html
    1. jeremyjanson
      That actually happens more often then you think.
    2. DuckbillJones
      that definitly happens more than you think

      "A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night ... Beyond actual insurrection, the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or any 'other condition'." -The New York Times
    3. Agit8r
      wow, next they are going to want us to house them...
  10. Agit8r
    And bizzarrely it is still on the books... and BOTH major party candidates voted to reaffirm it. "Two" parties... right!
  11. MonkeyWrench
    A one party state.

    A power-structure that fancies itself ultimate.
  12. exit2013
    @DuckbillJones , i stand corrected. But it seems so similar to Naomi Klein's of view. Wow!
    1. DuckbillJones
      i'll look into that name as well then! thanks for the heads-up exit2013!

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