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I found this on line and I think it speaks volumes....

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
Naomi Wolf wrote an essay about the ten steps a corrupt government takes to
create a fascist state, and provides examples of what the Bush
administration is doing to fulfill the requirements of each step. Some of
Wolf's examples are quite a stretch, but others are spot on.

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

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile
of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on
the surface; peasants were celebrating harvest festivals in Calabria in
1922; people were shopping and going to the movies in Berlin in 1931. Early
on, as WH Auden put it, the horror is always elsewhere - while someone is
being tortured, children are skating, ships are sailing: "dogs go on with
their doggy life ... How everything turns away/ Quite leisurely from the
disaster."

As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping
and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded.
Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our
democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work
today in a context in which we are "at war" in a "long war" - a war without
end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the
president - without US citizens realizing it yet - the power over US
citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.