We’re back! I hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving. Recently, we created Cranky College Grad’s Naughty List (see previous post), and today officially marks our first installation of Cranky College Grad’s Deans List. As you all should remember, the Dean List is used by many colleges to spotlight students who are doing an exceptional job along with maintaining a high GPA. However, our Deans List will spotlight individuals who stand up for what’s right, are making a difference and having a positive impact on our society. Our first member of our Deans List is Naomi Wolf.
feministing.com
Naomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. She is one of the leading spokespersons for female rights and is best known for her book entitled the End of America: A letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. In this book, Wolf takes a historical look at fascism and shows how the same steps a government uses to implement fascism are currently being used today. Her ten-step outline is listed below:
• Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
• Create secret prisons where torture takes place
• Develop a thug caste of paramilitary force not answerable to citizens
• Set up an internal surveillance system
• Harass citizen groups
• Engage in arbitrary detention and release
• Target key individuals
• Control the press
• Treat all political dissidents as traitors
• Suspend the rule of law
It is not to difficult to see how most of these steps have already been implemented in American society. Portraying Islamic groups as enemies, setting up Guantanamo Bay, the use of private defense contractors, camera systems being used to survey the public in thousands of neighborhoods and highways across America and the mistreatment of Occupy Wall Street protesters are just a few real world examples. Naomi Wolf is doing a great service by bringing these truths to light. She has even protested along side OWS protests and got arrested during the protests (see video below). For that alone, she deserves to be on the Deans List. Till next time, Stay Cranky My Friends.
-Cranky Scholar-
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