Whether they "Invoke an External and Internal Threat" or "Develop a Paramilitary Force" or "Restrict the Press" or the final step, "Subvert the Rule of Law, these steps are always recognizable ?" and they always work to crush democracies and establish tyrannies. At the time that I wrote the book, the "global threat" of terrorism was the specter that powers invoked in order to attack our freedoms.