politics { facist state in 10 easy steps

Yeah I'm on a politics tear today. (perhaps b/c of the music I am listening to at work today: Modest Mouse, She Wants Revenge, Placebo, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Sonic Youth)

Saw this on the Guardian UK: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

(distilled, how many seem familiar?)

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