The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #67019   Message #1116763
Posted By: Stu
16-Feb-04 - 03:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Some things don't change
Subject: BS: Some things don't change
"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 pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Hermann Goering, From a conversation with psychologist Gustave Gilbert while jailed at Nuremburg on the evening of 18 April 1946, documented in Gilbert's book "Nuremburg Diary.

Sound familiar? Junior and Tony know this too well.