"History has already proven that when hostile forces want to create disorder
in a society and subvert a political power, they often first make a
breakthrough with ideology and start by confusing people's thinking."

- China's President Hu

"David" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:38:03 -0500, "Li-Changchun"
wrote:


"MnMikew" wrote in message
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Well said Bruce.


"Normal" citizens (not David) will vote for a liar with religion (Bush)
over
an evil liar with Socialism (Kerry) every time.

It isn't about religion. It is about the motive of the liar.

Good grief! You are still fighting the Cold War. I'd much rather
fight WWII over again.

''"No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands
for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents
himself as the instrument [of] the Incorporated National Will. ...
When our dictator turns up you can depend on it that he will be one of
the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American. And
nobody will ever say 'Heil' to him, nor will they call him 'Fuhrer' or
'Duce.' But they will greet him with one great big, universal,
democratic, sheeplike bleat of 'O.K., Chief! Fix it like you wanna,
Chief! Oh Kaaaay!'" -- Dorothy Thompson, 1935
"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little
by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions
deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so
complicated that the government had to act on information which the
people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people
could understand it, it could not be released because of national
security...". -- They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer, 1955

"Whoooo could imagine, that they would freak out, in Kansas, Kansas,
badoobie-doobie-do, Kansas, Kansas..." -- Help I'm A Rock, The Mothers
of Invention, 1966

"... STOP groups like the ACLU from removing all mentions of Christmas
from the public square!" -- Christian Response e-Alert, December 2004

On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew,
assassinated Ernst von Rath, a low-ranking German official, at his
embassy in Paris. Two days later, Kristallnacht ("Night of Crystal"),
a pogrom that destroyed synagogues, Jewish-owned homes, stores and
community centers, commenced.

Kristalnacht was incited by a well-organized "intense campaign against
Jews [which] began on German National Radio," Milton Mayer wrote in
his 1955 book They Thought They Were Free. Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the
Nazi regime's Propaganda Minister, directed the campaign that appeared
to move ordinary Germans to action against Jews: Are the German people
going to be "sitting ducks all over the world for Jew murderers?" the
radio voice challenged. "Are the German people to stand helpless while
the Fuhrer's representatives are shot down by the Jew swine? Are the
Schweinehunde to get off scott free? Is the wrath of the German People
against the Israelite scum to be restrained any longer?"

Ten years after World War II, Milton Mayer went to Germany, where he
spent a year searching to find out how ordinary Germans -- not Nazi
Party leaders -- seamlessly and somewhat comfortably accepted and
embraced fascism.

In a television interview in 1986 -- nearly fifty years after
Kristalnacht -- Frank Zappa, a rock musician and free speech advocate,
warned that America itself was headed "toward a fascist theocracy."

Only a few months ago, right wing Christian fundamentalists were
claiming that Christmas -- and therefore Christians -- was under
attack. They vowed that they were not going to take it any more.

Milton Mayer's year-long pilgrimage to Germany and his conversation
with "ordinary Germans, Frank Zappa's warning on CNN's Crossfire and
the Christian right's campaign against church/state separationists
makes for an unusual trifecta. Yet these disparate threads of the past
and present represent clear trends in America's political landscape as
George W. Bush settles in to his second term. ''

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