On 5 Sep 2002 at 19:06, Archibald Scatflinger wrote:
>
> "My only doubt is whether American citizens are really so naive as to
> swallow all the lies they are fed, or do they do it because they don't
> care about others as long as they can make a living, enjoy abundance,
> and feel the blind arrogance of being part of the supreme power."
>
> http://bogusauthorityexposed.com/id24.htm
> "Man is to be conditioned to accept the circumstances that he finds
> himself in, not to
> learn to change them."
>
> "It is only the rebellious public-schooled who must have the
> devastating effect of
> individuality brainwashed out of them."
>
> John Dewey - one of the most influential names in American Education
> history.
>
> "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be
> dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War
> is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And
> armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing
> the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the
> discretionary power of the Executive is extended. Its influence in
> dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the
> means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force
> of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be
> traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud,
> growing out of a state of war...and in the degeneracy of manners and
> morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in
> the midst of continual warfare."
>
>
>
> --James Madison, April 20, 1795 (Works. Vol. 4, Pp. 491-2)
>
>
> "I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much
> because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious
> forces working from within."
> --General Douglas MacArthur
>
> "The man
> Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.
> Power, like a desolating pestilence,
> Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
> Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
> Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
> A mechanized automaton."
> --Percy Bysshe Shelley (from Queen Mab)
>
> "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the
> subject races to posses arms. History shows that all conquerors who
> have allowed their subject races to carry arms have
> prepared their own downfall by doing so."
> -Adolph Hitler 1938
>
> "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the
> nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those
> conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and
> refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by
> convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the
> better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
> --Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, 1916, Ch. 9
>
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is
> the argument of tyrants; it is
> the creed of slaves."
> -- William Pitt (1783)
>
> The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
> element in the large centers
> has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...
> -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt (11/21/1933)
>
> Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid
> by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the
> President, or the people....Outwardly we have a Constitutional
> government. We have operating within our government and political
> system, another body representing another form of government, a
> bureacratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded and is
> sure that it is the winning side...All the strange developments in
> foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to
> make us over to suit their pleasure....This political action group has
> its own local political support organizations, its own pressure
> groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our government,
> and its own
> propaganda apparatus.
> -- Senator William Jenner (2/23/1954)
>
Actually, Samuel Clemens was one of the most introspective Americans
to inhabit his century, challenged, perhaps, only by Herman Melville.
But the US has far from been engaged in continual warfare; that
distinction belongs ineluctably to the Islamic world. And if sam were
here, he would want to saddle up as a 21st century knight, to go do
battle in the name of Yankee enlightenment against the New
Medievalism.
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