"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..." -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
"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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." -- Leading Nazi leader, Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death
" Everyone likes to say Hitler did this" and "Hitler did that". But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class a**hole, but the evil actually done, from the death camps to WW2 was all done by citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster. " It's easy to look back and realize what a jerk Hitler was. But at the time, Hitler looked pretty good to the world, with the help of the media. He was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1938. Stalin was TIME Man Of The Year for 1939 and 1942. The lesson is that it isn't easy to spot a genocidal tyrant when you live with one, especially one whom the press supports and promotes. Tyrants become obvious only when looking back, after what they have done becomes known. " It is the very nature of power that it attracts the very sort of people who should not have it. The United States, as the world's last superpower, is a prize that attracts men and women willing to do anything to win that power, and hence are willing to do anything with it once they have it. It is racist to assume that tyrants appear only in other nations and that somehow America is immune simply because we're Americans. America has escaped the clutches of a dictatorship only through the efforts of those citizens who, unlike the Germans and Russians of the 1930s, have the moral courage to stand up and point out where the government is lying to the people."
" We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country. " -- FBI Director Louis Freeh, to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, 1997
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong." -- Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader, 1855-1926
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." -- Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence and president of US from 1801-1809
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, the people who stated that the US government had prior knowledge were ridiculed, labeled as traitors, and by having to suffer this labeling, soon quieted down. Years later, we realized they were correct, that the government DID know what was coming. In every major event, from Pearl Harbor, to JFKs' killing, to OK City, Vince Foster, WACO, flight 800, and it will enventually come to be realized on 9/11. It already is coming to light. Go ahead and be led around like a sheep. It is easier that way. It is hard to question that everything is not as it seems. Why is it that when the news media runs a medical story on a micro camera, that can be swallowed by a patient, to examine the intestines, that is universally excepted, yet if someone claims that the government is planting transponder chips under the skin of people, everybody screams paranoid idiots? Trust. Violation of trust.They got you right where they want you. You are an easy sell. Money and power have the ability corrupt men. Men run our government. But of course OUR powerful government would never do any wrong- we are the good guys! Go ahead, enjoy yourselves. Laugh at me. I know better.
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