Monday, October 27, 2008

Today on Radio West Doug Fabrezio interviewed Phil Donahue about his new documentary movie "Body of War" it sounds pretty interesting. One of the clips they played was Senator Byrd quoting Herman Goering a high ranking Nazi. who said this at the Nurenburg trials

"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine 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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

1 comment:

Allan Stellar said...

I was watching Naomi Wolf last night on Free Speech TV. She finds lots of parallels between the propaganda mechanisms of left and right wing despots within the structure of the whole new war on terrorism thing. Including the use of some of the same terms; including "Homeland Security". Frightening times we live in. Will Obama (should he win) be any different?

Thanks for that post!