From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 00:17:20 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Hubert writes
>
>
>>Thanx Emlyn for this revealing quote of Hermann Goering:
>>
>>
>>>" [...] 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 greater
>>>danger. It works the same way in any country."
>>
>
> Goering was not thinking of a country in which there was
> freedom of expression. Why should he? He had never known
> one, and from his perspective, the democracies were "has
> beens" proven not to work (e.g. the Weimar republic). Quite
> the contrary, he saw how successful were the regimes of Hitler
> and Stalin.
>
Not so. Pre-Nazi Germany was extremely liberal with great
freedom of expression. It was a main cultural and intellectual
center of the world. It did not start out as some totalitarian
pest hole.
The point is that this kind of rhetoric does in fact work to
shut up all to many minds and mouths until it is far too late.
- samantha
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