And she notes that the targeting of citizens as terrorists has reached a new level of control most recently at the RNC Republican National Convention where even journalists like Amy Goodman were arrested and detained over night. Most ominous in her warning is the recent deployment of the 1st brigade of the 3rd Infantry division, returned from Iraq, into the streets of the US . Along side this development she cites the recent Bailout bill with $100 Billion allocated for the President with no ties attached. Another compelling piece of the evidence is reference to US Representative Brad Sherman, from California who said that the US Congress was pressured by the White House to pass the Bailout Bill under threat of martial law. All these factors convince Naomi Wolf that a Coup has occurred and that the American people face a crisis as great as that which occurred in Nazi Germany in 1933.
Read on for a brief overview of her
[1] Article on Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
[2] Overview of her book The End of America
[3] My partial transcript of her youtube interview with Michael McCormick -- which outlines her reasons for alerting the public to take action against the quickening slide into fascism in the US,
which she has now framed as a `coupī and an overview of her recent book - "Give Me Liberty...A Handbook for American Revolutionaries." Her recent book outlines steps American citizens need to be taking at this time. In addition she is adding new actions to those she prescribed in her book based on the fact that a coup, has occurred in her interpretation. First and foremost she says to stop this `coupī citizens must meet with their representatives and find District Attorneys who can begin the necessary steps to arrest the President and the perpetrators.
[4] SPP and Deep Integration Implications for Canada and North American Union under US martial law
[5] More references on US Martial law from globalresearch.ca
Naomi Wolf Video Interview on Looming Martial Law in the US and her
prescription for action from her recent book "Give Me Liberty...A
Handbook for American Revolutionaries." .
Commentary and Partial Transcript by Janet M Eaton, PhD, academic,
researcher, activist and critic of neo-liberal globalization
October 9, 2008
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Naomi Wolf , author of Fascist America in 10 easy Steps, a Guardian
newspaper article based on her book The End of America, says in a
YouTube interview with Mike McCormick, that the US faces the imminent
threat of martial law. Drawing on her earlier book the End of America
and pointing to the ten steps to Fascism she ups the ante in warning
about the looming threat of fascism in America by going one step
further alerting the American public that indeed a coup occurred on
Monday October first. She argues that several of the steps were
already in place at the time including: hyping an internal and
external threat that's terrifying; creating a secret prison system
outside the rule of law; Torture taking place, creating a para-
military force not answerable to the people; and setting up a
surveillance apparatus.
And she notes that the targeting of citizens as terrorists has
reached a new level of control most recently at the RNC Republican
National Convention where even journalists like Amy Goodman were
arrested and detained over night. Most ominous in her warning is the
recent deployment of the 1st brigade of the 3rd
Infantry division, recently returned from Iraq, in the streets of the
US . Along side this development she cites the recent Bailout bill
with $100 Billion allocated for the President with no ties attached.
Another compelling piece of the evidence is reference to US
Representative Brad Sherman, from California who said that the US
Congress was pressured by the White House to pass the Bailout Bill
under threat of martial law.
Here are my notes on this threat from her interview:
"This morning go to CSPAN youtube and type in representative Brad
Sherman Martial law which explains a lot if its true and no reason to
not believe him - he says the administration has hyped an emergency.
Rep Sherman said they were told in private conversation ..if we
didnīt pass the bailout- markets would go down 1000 points each day
and by Monday they would be facing martial law- several members in
private conversations were threatened with martial law- if they
didn't do as said. Now why should we take it seriously - this is my
other terrible piece of news . We have to wake up We have to wake up
On Oct. 1st the 1st brigade of the 3rd Infantry division was
deployed in United States America. For first time since 1807 when a
bright line was placed preventing military from policing American
streets- a military brigade that's 3-4,000 soldiers has been brought
in to police our streets- The Army Times reported it ."
All these factors convince Naomi Wolf that a Coup has occurred and
that the American people face a crisis as great as that which
occurred in Nazi Germany in 1933.
Read on for a brief overview of her
[1] Article on Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
[2] Overview of her book The End of America
[3] My partial transcript of her youtube interview with Michael
McCormick -- which outlines her reasons for alerting the public to
take action against the quickening slide into fascism in the US,
which she has now framed as a `coupī and an overview of her recent
book - "Give Me Liberty...A Handbook for American Revolutionaries."
Her recent book outlines steps American citizens need to be taking
at this time. In addition she is adding new actions to those she
prescribed in her book based on the fact that a coup, has occurred in
her interpretation. First and foremost she says to stop this `coupī
citizens must meet with their representatives and find District
Attorneys who can begin the necessary steps to arrest the President
and the perpetrators.
[4] SPP and Deep Integration Implications for Canada and North
American Union under US martial law
[5] More references on US Martial law from globalresearch.ca
Naomi Wolf implores viewers not only to take action but also to
take time to check out the references she is offering [see below]. As
for Naomi Wolfīs credentials:
Naomi Wolf (born 1962) is an American author, political consultant,
and public intellectual who graduated from Yale in 1984 and was a
Rhodes scholar at New College, Oxford University. She is the author
of the bestselling feminist books "The Beauty Myth," "Fire with
Fire," "Promiscuities," and "Misconceptions." The New York Times
called "The Beauty Myth" one of the 70 most significant books of the
century. Wolf was a consulting editor at George Magazine. Her essays
appear regularly in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, The Washington Post, Glamour, Ms., and other
publications.
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[1] Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain
steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional
freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration
seem to be taking them all
http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
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[2] The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (ISBN
978-1933392790) is the most recent book released by author Naomi
Wolf.
Referenced in April 2007 in her Guardian article titled Fascist
America in Ten Steps, The End of America argues that events of the
last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the
twentieth century's worst dictatorships and claims that Americans to
take action to "restore" their constitutional values before they
suffer the same fate. The book illustrates ten common steps which
Wolf states can be witnessed in the transition of any democratic
state to one of fascist rule. The book was published in September
2007 by Chelsea Green Publishing of White River Junction, Vermont.
[edit] The ten steps
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
2. Create secret prisons where torture takes place.
3. Develop a thug caste or paramilitary force not answerable to
citizens.
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. Treat all political dissents to be traitors.
10. Suspend the rule of law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_ A_Letter_of_Warning_t
o_a_Young_Patriot
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[3] Interview with Naomi Wolf author of "Give Me Liberty...
A Handbook for American Revolutionaries."
http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI
Partial Transcript by Janet M Eaton, PhD
Part time academic, researcher, activist, and corporate
globalization critic.
" I wrote 'Give me Liberty' as a sequel to 'The End of America'
because when I was traveling around the country warning people about
these ten steps- to fascism, that these ten steps to a closed
society that I saw always are put in place when a would-be dictator
wants to crush an open society - many people rightly saw that what I
was saying was true- they saw the signs all around them everything
from Steps 1- hyping an internal and external threat that's
terrifying, step 2 , creating a secret prison system outside the
rule of law, Step 3 Torture taking place, creating a para-military
force not answerable to the people step 4 , a surveillance apparatus
etc. and they freaked out understandably as they should and they
said what do we do-so I wrote a sequel.
What do we do first ? We get terrified and then we get down to work
and that's "Give me Liberty" - I looked at times and places where
citizens had faced the
closing of an open society and successfully fought back and because
we're in an emergency and a crisis I want to get to that today
quickly.. Second thing I did I looked back at the founders and I
don't just mean the well known white men property holders , the
whole founding generation of ordinary people, many of them not named
by history- farmers and artisans and washer women and enslaved
African Americans, all of whom had this vision of liberty and moved
it forward and put their lives on the line to make it real - and I
wanted to go back to what are the core principles that America is
supposed to give us because we're being manipulated and brain washed
so far away from that - with fake democracy - fake patriotism.
And the last part of the book is a practical how to - we need a
battle plan - A coup has taken place and people need to know how to
fight back. I mean the worst thing to happen when there's a coup is
confusion.... Americans are facing a coup as of this morning- as of
October 1st and confirmed this morning ..it's happened and we have
almost no time to push back- and we have to understand it's an
emergency so in the last third of the book it's a practical how to -
everything from : become your own media, write the op-eds, frame the
debate, to .. start your own political movement, organize as
democracy commando units to put pressure on your representatives.
But now that the coup is here rather than looming- I'm adding pieces
to the battle plan.
We've got a movement you can join at myamericaproject.org
You can screen a film to alert them to the threat at
endofamericamovie.com
But most crucial thing is to understand the nature of the threat- so
on Monday I'll be posting more urgent how to among them how to
arrest the President."
[The above has been transcribed from first five minutes or so of the
video. Towards the end of her interview she describes the seven
principles from her most recent book "Give me Liberty". She explains
how in the early days of the peopleīs struggle for freedom , ordinary
people rose up again and again and describes the many ways they
opposed the denial of their liberties - from the Boston tea party to
setting fire in NY to palatial carriages of tax collectors, to when
Washington issued edicts they didnīt agree with rioting up and down
the eastern seaboard. She says that the first contract in the
Declaration of Independence these citizen took into their hearts-
that you are committed to as an American is to stand up against
tyranny- and oppression. She gives an example of how African
Americans who were enslaved risked their lives to do bring many many
lawsuits before the legislatures in colonial America for their
freedom because ordinary people understood these rights were
universal rights and when a tyrant looms you have to do everything
you can to oppose it. She goes on to say:]
"So I go back to core principles they wanted us to remember
1. You're not entitled to speak you are obliged to speak-you have to
speak freely
2. You have to rebel continually against injustice and oppression
3. Ordinary people are supposed to run things- weīve been told again
and again leave it to us - to the politicians and the pundits. The
constitutional scholars know ordinary people in America are supposed
to be the leaders the agents of change, an d right now your country
needs you- transpartisan right or left your country needs you to see
this coup for what it is.
4. Americans cherish the rule of law- we're not supposed to sit idly
by when it is subverted and perverted- Why do people all over the
world envy us - its not our standard of living - although thatīs
nice, It's how we feel inside because we are so free o we have been
because we cherish the rule of law -- judges tend not to be corrupt;
the constitution has protected us- that's what people envy- thatīs
going to disappear unless we rise up against this violation of the
rule of law.
5. America had no established God- this is so important - these
people are seizing power in the name of a theocracy- I didnīt used
to thin this is true- not that they are driven by faith but they are
using faith as a mobilizing tool- Sarah Palin is going to extend that
theocracy - Iīve written a piece about that- The founders wanted to
ensure that this was a country of religious freedom -where you were
free in your conscience because they had come from places where
religious minorities, Christian minorities, were persecuted by the
states. America establishes no God .
6. We're supposed to deliberate with our neigbours- we're the ones
who are supposed to be having the debates not the right over here and
left over there - we are supposed to be face to face with one another
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In town meetings, in city meetings, deliberating, setting the agenda
ourselves.
7. We cannot maintain an oppressive empire and still be Americans -
America is supposed to understand that liberty is a universal human
right. We are supposed to divest of an oppressive empire - and
become a Republic again and truly send out and support liberty abroad
rather than subverting democracies and turning a blind eye to them as
citizens .
Finally this new American revolution again it begins psychologically-
it begins by taking into our hearts that each of us is called upon by
our founders to stand up for freedom.
And the good news- we have to get the word out- is that historically
when millions of people rise up in time but the time itīs past
midnight Now . I used to say it is October of 1931. N o but now Iīm
going to say itīs February 1933 and everything closed down for good
in April of 1933 in Germany. There is no more time - so we have to
understand that when millions of people rise up together- oppressors
are bullies and bullies are tyrants and historically what happens is
they flee, they cave and they turn each other in. Thatīs why you have
to move aggressively. You have to arrest these people. You have to
move into the rest of the cabal - You have to get a warrant to get
their computers, declare what has happened i.e. that a coup has taken
place- and when you find these people are charged and theyīre in
custody thatīs when they start to back off and turn on one another -
it happened with the Stasi and it happened with Joe McCarthy, But
the time is NOW!!
Thank you so much Mike I appreciate you giving me the time to get the
word out!
http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=_XgkeTanCGI (ca.30 MINUTES)
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[4] SPP and Deep Integration Implications for Canada and North
American Union under US martial law:
Note also that Canada is deeply integrated with the US through NAFTA,
the SPP and bi-national military planning agreement. Although some
SPP proponents indicated after the Montebello Summit that, from their
perspective, it had failed because of lack of transparency and
inability of business leaders to implement, because of the scrutiny
and opposition from civil society and opposition parties, we do know
that at the same time a myriad of committees are still in place
attempting to deregulate to the lowest common denominator a range of
regulatory regimes in regard to health, environment and food safety
as well as furthering the degree of both economic integration and a
major number of security rules, provisions and legislation which runs
contrary in some cases to international law, and our own beliefs and
values as Canadians about the kind of public policy we prefer. The
SPP is also moving us toward a custom's union and some aspects of a
common market , working on changes to allow that process to move
ahead. We are currently locked into a NAFTA agreement shown to be
detrimental in many ways to both workers and the environment and now
the SPP, NAFTA plus agreement is forcing deeper integration in
regard to energy, water, investment etc. with attempts at
harmonization of related regulations. In the past there have been
many arguments for a common monetary system i.e. the Amero - This
crisis should be warning enough to avoid any further integration with
the US and to heed the growing resistance to NAFTA and the calls for
renegotiation which are many and varied. We must also scrap the SPP
and we must avoid at all costs letting Harper achieve a majority
government. We don't know what kind of talks to further North
American Union could suddenly emerge as a done deal if this were so
especially under should martial law be declared in the US. .
And don't forget legislation is in place under the SPP allowing US
troops on our soil in case of an natural or manmade emergency.
And finally as the SPP falls under criticism not only from civil
society but also from business executives critical of the delays in
both process and implementation of border initiatives to speed trade
across the border, we now find out that thinking has begun in the
Institutes, think tanks and universities as to how a bi-lateral
economic and free trade agreement with the US might be more useful
than being stuck in a three way deal with Mexico with all of its
unique problems.
This should be an election issue !!
It is not that we should refrain from trading with our neighbours if
it is within reasonable distance, within bio-regions, and by
transport that reduces GHG emissions but we must insist on 'fair
trade' and ecologically sustainable principles to guide our trading
relationships. The existing free trade regimes are the instruments of
laissez-faire neo-conservative, Chicago School economic doctrines
that have led the world to the brink of financial and economic
disaster, the end of cheap oil, and to ecological collapse in
many of the world's ecosystems elevating to the global level the
issue, already felt in the developing world of food and water
scarcity.
Please post this far and wide . Even if it seems to some a bit
alarmist - it appears well documented - And NOW is the time to take
into account the breadth of potential consequences of the disasters,
chaos and collapse scenarios that have emerged at this time in
history and which should be framing any and all debates and
conversations about the future.
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[5] FURTHER REFERENCES ON POTENTIAL OF U.S. DECLARATION OF MARTIAL
LAW
And note Naomi Wolfīs concerns about martial law and a coup are not
alone. Professor Michel Chossudovsky has written extensively during
the past few years about growing developments under the PNAC inspired
Bush Cheney regime moving the US toward martial law. Note the
following references on his globalresearch.ca website.
[ ] Secret Bush Administration Plan to Suspend US Constitution
- by Tom Burghardt - 2008-10-06
Exercising sweeping emergency powers, unelected officials could
suspend the Constitution, declare martial law and create an Executive
Branch dictatorship that rests solely on the power of the U.S.
military.
[ ] Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US
Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"
- by Michel Chossudovsky - 2008-09-26
See also
[ ] Is the Annexation of Canada Part of Bush's Military Agenda?
- by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky - 2007-07-18
Territorial control over Canada is part of Washington's geopolitical
and military agenda as formulated in April 2002 by Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld.
[ ] Is America Preparing for Martial Law?
- by Michel Chossudovsky - 2005-04-10
These exercises must be understood in the broader context of
America's National Security doctrine, which presents Al Qaeda as the
main threat to the American homeland.
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