May 01, 2007
Creeping Up
So much for spring break. It's back to harping once again, sorry folks, but democracy is important.
The Guardian (of course) published Naomi Wolf's sinister title Ten Steps to Fascism
....If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps..
Of course you must read the article in it's entirely to be properly horrified, but for those who find the subject boring, I have excerpted the Ten Steps below
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law
You might choose to devote some real time to this thought, if you weren't trying to paste a smiley face on an empty gas gauge, as Esther Hicks would say--- You are where you are, do not deny that. If you do, watch the movie or read "The Traveler" then think a better thought.
Here are a couple of suggestions you might consider, but don't tell anyone you heard it here.
Did you see that a fifty foot "Mission Accomplished? "banner was unfurled in front of the White House today. Maybe not the one in Iraq isn't, but ........
Photo note: The bottom of a bird bath taken on location in Cambridge at the Pemberton Farms I shot a number of other lizards on this garden ornament, but I just know I'll need them later.
Posted by Dakota at May 1, 2007 05:10 PM