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TEN STEPS THAT ARE RUINING THE UNITED STATES

posted by UMDUMB
Mon, 05/12/2008 - 4:30am

Create/Invoke a terrifying external AND internal threat to security. Exaggeration, lying about, and distortion of the threat is how it is played. Best if the threat is amorphous and impossible to 'pin down.'
Create an prison camp and military tribunals that are OUTSIDE of the law.
Develop a private military that is not bound by the law of the democracy or constitution. Give them broad authority and limit accountability to law.
Begin extraordinary internal surveillance. Turn your citizens into 'enemies' of the state.
Infiltrate, harrass and corrupt citizens groups, political parties, interest groups. Create problems that make them 'look bad' and turn other citizens against them.
Target key individuals. Political competitors, Rivals, opposing special interests. Eliminate, defang, discredit or absorb them.
Terrorize or corrupt the Influential. Universities, Professors, Professionals, anyone trusted with expertise in a position to speak out or influence citizens. Publicize the fear to demonstrate power, and the necessity for it, to the public. Make them afraid to talk or do their professional job.
Control, by any means necessary, the media. Make it YOUR propaganda machine with lies, distortions, dissimulations, defamations.
Eliminate dissent. Ensure that citizens understand and cooperate with the tenet 'dissent equals treason' and follow through with accusations in a public and visible way. Generate distrust among groups, families, neighborhoods. Encourage informing on suspected activities or suspicious individuals. Ignore the use of this for personal vendettas, but encourage this to further terrorize civilians.
Suspend the Rule of Law. Declare Martial Law. Create gathering hyper- or super- treaties and alliances without consultation of law and consolidate into the inner circle.

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