Originally Posted by spacedog

Naomi Wolf explains the 10 step blueprint to closing an open society.

1: Invoke an internal and external threat
2: Secret Prisons outside the rule of law
3: Develop a paramilitary force
4: Surveil ordinary citizens
5: Infiltrate citizens groups
6: Detain and release ordinary citizens
7: Target Key Individuals
8: Restrict the Press
9: Recast criticism as espionage and dissent as treason
10: Subvert the rule of law