OT: dragging the people along

[email hidden] (tcomeau) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But,
after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy
and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it
is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be
brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works
the same in any country."
~ Hermann Goering, President of the Reichstag, Nazi Party, and
Luftwaffe Commander in Chief

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TC

Now its more than a little disturbing when we have a complete mad man
like Paul Wolfowits at the top levels of power in the US who has said
things almost identical to that statement. I almost thought it was a
quote from him or one of the other [censored] up neocon villains in the
bush administration as i was reading it. These people actually
advocated the need for a new pearl harbor style attack on the US in
order for the public to accept their extreme agenda of world
domination. They do not even try to make a secret of it. It is all
in writing. Amazingly people actually think it was a coincidence that
such an attack happened just months after they came to power.