Eleven Steps To Fascism.

1: TERROR! Because RUSSIA! Al Qaeda!.
2. Rendition in third world countries.
3. DHS militarizing US police and sheriffs.
4. Yep. FISA is now active for five more years.
5. Standard procedure; depicted in Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11".
6. Spying on the Muslim community. NY's unConstitutional "Stop and Frisk". TSA acting on buses and trains.
7. Ask Dan Rather.
8. Throughout the Occupy camp raids, media were purposefully restricted. No media, no record of criminal police/state behavior.
9. Some very odd cheerleading in the mainstream media, not quite claiming the T word, but definite groupthink.
10. TERROR means we have to do things a little differently, doesn't it. Ask Bloomberg who said straight up that the Constitution has to be re-interpreted after the Boston bombing.
11. One upon which to keep a very sharp eye. Connecticut. NY SAFE act.