Naomi Wolf: Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?

[balantz]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10429


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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Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account -- he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.



Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.



Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That's not all: people's bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says "That's impossible." Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens' report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.



I am not telling you this because it's about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life -- whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing protects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:



Scharansky divided nations into "fear societies" and "free societies." Make no mistake: Sarah "Evita" Palin is Rove and Cheney's cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible "fear society" in this once free once proud nation. For God's sake, do not let her; do not let them.

[balantz]

1. Apologies, I see this has already been posted.

But this can't be seen enough. Please pass this article everywhere.

[maryf]

12. As you say...

This is an important article...to duplicate or triplicate it here just makes it seen by more!!:hi:

[Mme. Defarge]

2. Naomi Wolf

is so hysterical, I almost have to wonder if she is an agent provocateur. While I believe she makes a contribution with her identification of the signs of a closing society, she lost some credibility with me when she admitted that she was unfamiliar with the works of others who have written on this topic.

I agree that there is cause for alarm, but I have the impression that her message is as much about her sense of self-importance as it is about the dangers she describes.

Flame away!

[Beregond2]

3. Absolutely.

She is an attention-whore making a fool of herself.

[Karenina]

4. Let's hope so!

:hi:

[Mme. Defarge]

7. Indeed - n/t

[nikto]

8. Beregond2...

If she is right, I hope you are among the first to be disappeared.

You'd wise up then, I bet.

See you in the gulag, fool.

[realitythink]

10. Perhaps you're right.. but...

It's plausible none the less. Hartmann had her on his show on Thursday in the third hour. Have a listen to that before you discount it. I do hope it's all an over reaction, for all our sakes.

[midnight]

5. Yes keep probing and make sure everyone is still awake.

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.

[offog]

6. Right-on post!

I'm worried about this stuff too, especially since reading that the army is being deployed in the U.S. in case of "civil unrest". I'm Canadian, but I still worry because who wants to live next door to a police state? I can definitely see a McCain/Palin administration invading Canada for our water and oil.

I've been posting all over the place about an old science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, "The Moon is A Harsh Mistress", which I plan to re-read as soon as the Canadian Federal Election is over. It's about a Moon colony fighting for independence. Heinlein's politics were always very right wing, but this book is worth reading. It's practically a manual on organizing a resistance and revolution. It even gives detailed instructions on how to set up resistance cells. Maybe people should read it before it gets banned.

[waiting for hope]

9. Rec and a heary Kick -

If anyone still believes we have these freedoms now, just think if McCain/Palin get in, there will be nothing left.

[bhikkhu]

11. An pretty clear point, well worth repeating

I fear very little, but this person does make my skin crawl.

[balantz]

13. Kick