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Naomi Wolf, the author, most recently, of The End of America:
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and the forthcoming Give
me Liberty: How to Become an American Revolutionary, is
co-founder of the American Freedom Campaign, a US democracy
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[link:www.welt.de/english-news/article2540938/Dear-World-Please-Confront-America.html|Dear
World, Please Confront America]

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But, while grassroots pressure has not worked, money still
talks. We need targeted government-led sanctions against the
US by civilized countries, including international divestment
of capital. Many studies have shown that tying investment to
democracy and human rights reform is effective in the
developing world. There is no reason why it can’t be effective
against the world’s superpower.

We also need an internationally coordinated strategy for
prosecuting war criminals at the top and further down the
chain of command – individual countries pressing charges, as
Italy and France have done. Although the United States is not
a signatory to the statute that established the International
Criminal Court, violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva
Conventions are war crimes for which anyone – potentially even
the US president – may be tried in any of the other 193
countries that are parties to the conventions. The whole world
can hunt these criminals down.

An outlaw America is a global problem that threatens the rest
of the international community. If this regime gets away with
flouting international law, what is to prevent the next
administration – or this administration, continuing under its
secret succession plan in the event of an emergency – from
going further and targeting its political opponents at home
and abroad?

We Americans are either too incapable, or too dysfunctional,
to help ourselves right now. Like drug addicts or the mentally
ill who refuse treatment, we need our friends to intervene. So
remember us as we were in our better moments, and take action
to save us – and the world – from ourselves.

Maybe then I can fall in love with my country again.

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[link:aviewfrommybalcony.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/stop-bushs-unconstitutional-iraq-agreement/|Clinton’s
Letter to the American Freedom Campaign.]


Published: October 5, 2007
October 4, 2007

Dear Mr. Fox:

Thank you for your letter and for the opportunity to convey
directly my views on these issues of great importance to our
Nation. 

I believe the most important strength of our country emanates
from our values and our institutions of justice, as enshrined
in our Constitution. Our values and institutions are not
liabilities, as this administration wants Americans to
believe. To the contrary, I believe our values – our belief in
human dignity, the rule of law, and fundamental fairness – are
our most important assets, and forfeiting them in the war
against terrorism and extremism hands a victory to the enemy. 

As we read today in The New York Times, however, the
administration has continued to try to evade the law while
claiming to abide by it, commissioning secret memos that turn
the laws against torture and cruel treatment on their heads. 

When I opposed the Military Commissions Act in 2006, I made my
position clear: torture violates the fundamental rule of law
and the institutions of justice, it does not bear reliable
fruit in intelligence gathering, and it undermines our moral
strength in a conflict that cannot be won solely with military
might. It should never be the policy of the United States to
torture. 

My position has been reinforced and strengthened in recent
months by a number of important events. In a December 2006
report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, a
number of leading experts offered evidence that challenged the
reliability of information obtained from coercive
interrogation tactics. 

In April 2007, I met personally with a group of retired
Generals and Admirals, seasoned and experienced military
officers with many years of experience among them, and they
were unequivocal in their view that torture and other official
cruelty have no place in U.S. policy. They also said that
permitting torture does “grave damage to America ’s moral
authority and, by fueling jihadist recruitment, undermines our
security.” 

As I said in September, I could not agree more. Torture
“cannot be American policy. Period.”

Similarly, we must uphold the most basic right of all people
detained under government authority to challenge the reason
for their detention. Our democracy is grounded in the
conviction that courts must be able to check the arbitrary
power of government over the individual. Denying habeas corpus
to detainees in our custody undermines that principle and in
doing so diminishes us all. 

I also believe that the President must have the ability to
pursue terrorists and defend our national security with the
best technology at hand. But we have existing law that allows
that -- the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The rule of
law is not an obstacle, despite what some in the Executive
Branch seem to believe. In fact, the rule of law facilitates
our safety and security. That is why I voted against the
President's wiretapping bill this past August.

To lead, our country must uphold its most fundamental rules
and standards. The next president must not only possess a
clear-eyed assessment of the terrorist threat, but must
demonstrate the moral courage to face that threat without
forsaking the values which set our Nation apart. I look
forward to taking up that challenge as President. 

Thank you for your important work on these issues.

Hillary Clinton 

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[link:www.alternet.org/rights/100069/has_sarah_palin_been_picked_as_the_titular_head_of_the_coming_police_state/|Has
Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming
Police State?]

By Naomi Wolf, Huffington Post. Posted September 24, 2008.

Palin will help to establish a true and irreversible 'fear
society' in this once free once proud nation. 

Please understand what you are looking at when you look at
Sarah "Evita" Palin. You are looking at the
designated muse of the coming American police state.


You have to understand how things work in a closing society in
order to understand "Palin Power." A gang or cabal
seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the
fore. Then they will hold elections -- but they will make sure
that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable,
weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia
has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of
thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing.
When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even
presidents, but you don't have freedom.


I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor
Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this
time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites
("the heart of America is on display") and realized
Bush's speechwriters were writing her -- not McCain's --
speeches. I heard her tell George Bush's lies -- not McCain's
-- to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her
make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of
prisoners -- this is Rove-Cheney's enthusiastic S and M, not
McCain's, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006
Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and
wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I
saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist
(neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned
Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who
styles all the women in the Bush orbit -- but who does not
bother to style Cindy McCain.


Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in
defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas -- this is what
Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia
tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was
railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women's
shelters -- Rove's style, not McCain's. I realized what I was
seeing. 


Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the
FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became
clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is "dialed
in" to the McCain campaign. Rove's protege Steve Schmidt
is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was
heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection.
Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and
Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her
every move.


What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable
dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply
actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and
life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in
the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates:
doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four
years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as
a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist
face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess
for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get
in, this will be the last true American election. She will be
working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the
foreseeable future -- for a decade perhaps -- a puppet
"president" for the same people who have plundered
our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who
murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of
choice and lies.


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[link:www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/081007-patrick-columnspapersplease.html|PAPERS
PLEASE, CITIZEN: and other things you may hear this Holiday
Season]
By Kevin Patrick 

There might be a new edition this Holiday Season to your
downtown shopping district; and that is armed soldiers on your
street corners. During 2007 the Bush Administration made it
legal for the military to act as Police inside US borders.
This had been illegal since just after the Civil War except in
a few specific situations. 

This will not be the National Guard, no ladies and gents, this
will be the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team of
the U.S. Army. As Naomi Wolf has said in her interviews, these
troops answer to the President as Commander in chief and move
at his discretion. He could send them to protests, to polling
locations, to the halls of Congress, to your house. Mussolini
and Hitler did this while they still ruled democracies to
frighten legislators and others. Where will these soldiers go
in the next 36 months? Your guess is as good as mine, but
hopefully more optimistic. 

Although their official mission is to quell domestic
disturbance , unruly citizens, and other such behavior; it is
a quick turn from dissenter to terrorist suspect in this
fearful environment. This commentator finds this a deeply
disturbing development. Notice the lack of mainstream media
coverage; what does that say? 

This follows in the wake of the Economic Patriot Act (the
Paulson Bailouts). This Bill was railroaded through and many
inconstancies occurred. Such as the Senate offering amendments
after the Bill was voted down by the House. Representative
Sherman from California said that this Bill was pushed through
with threats and force. He even went so far as to say that
actual Martial Law was threatened if this Bill did not pass. A
video of this Congressman saying so can be seen here: link. 

“These are the times that try men's souls...” No less true
than when they were uttered, these words echo through history
to the halls of Congress, and down an empty and boarded-up
Main Street. 

America faces her greatest challenges ahead. More terrifying
than the Cold War is our own soldiers pin ed against us, more
deadly than chemical weapons is bread-lines and food
shortages, and more disheartening than international
terrorism, is closed elections and closed society. 

Will we rally to the Banner of Liberty? Hopefully. What will
you do? This is the real question; and the answer to it will
decid the fate of a nation, an idea, a great experiment in
Liberty. What will you do?


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[link:uprisingradio.org/home/?p=3612|Give Me Liberty: A
Handbook for American Revolutionaries]

In her earlier best-selling book, The End of America, feminist
author and critic Naomi Wolf warned readers of a profound
shift toward facism under the Bush administration. She
outlined ten basic steps toward facism that Hitler’s Germany
and Mussolini’s Italy took and how the US was walking a very
fine line in that direction. But while most Americans who read
her book agreed with her about the dire direction of the
country, the power to change course remained elusive. Most of
us know the problems that exist. But what are the solutions?
Naomi Wolf, in her new book, “Give Me Liberty,” presents what
she calls “A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.” It’s a
practical Do-It-Yourself guide to taking back the country from
a direction so dangerous, that everything is at stake. Naomi
Wolf may scare the living day-lights out of us, but she
promises hope. 

GUEST: Naomi Wolf, best selling author of The End of America,
and her newest book, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American
Revolutionaries

[link:ia311236.us.archive.org/0/items/DailyDigest_10_07_08/2008_10_07_uprising.mp3|LISTEN
TO THE ENTIRE PROGRAM]


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[link:www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment|Fascist
America, in 10 easy steps]


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