Ten Steps to Close Down an Open Society

1. Invoke an External and Internal Threat
2. Establish Secret Prisons
3. Develop a Paramilitary Force
4. Surveil Ordinary Citizens
5. Infiltrate Citizens' Groups
6. Arbitrarily Detain and Release Citizens
7. Target Key Individuals
8. Restrict the Press
9. Cast Criticism as "Espionage" and Dissent as "Treason"
10. Subvert the Rule of Law

Naomi Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, A Citizen's Call to Action (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing), 2007.