posted on Aug, 11 2007 @ 03:06 AM
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
- George Washington -
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided
policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which
was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and
nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
-General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is
to come back to his farm in one piece? 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 - Hitler's Reich-Marshall
[edit on 11-8-2007 by pai mei]
[edit on 11-8-2007 by pai mei]