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 `coup´ 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 `coup´ 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

didn´t 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 `coup´ 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 `coup´

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 Wolf´s 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 people´s 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 didn´t 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- we´ve 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 that´s

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- that´s

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 didn´t 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 - I´ve 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 it´s past

midnight Now . I used to say it is October of 1931. N o but now I´m

going to say it´s 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. That´s 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 they´re in

custody that´s 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 Wolf´s 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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