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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (190657)	10/10/2001 3:53:04 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

OK Skipper! Here's another clip you can dance around... "We have greater freedom of action in domestic policy. Here it is a matter of capturing each individual. The determination of the individual stands alongside the forged determination of the community. Here battles will be fought that require a new kind of statistic. If we want to support a foreign policy decision, the entire nation must be mobilized for a powerful frontal attack. Domestic matters are not settled by mass meetings and mass marches alone. There "the troops must be divided into separate units." The battle will be won within the family, the workplace, the office. Such quiet, tough battles depend on the determination, independence and self-confidence of the individual fighter. Many details of our domestic policy are not yet legally settled, nor can everything be written into law. There is much room for personal initiative. Each party member at least can act as a National Socialist. In such matters, each is his own political propagandist. There he can show if is is determined, persistent, self-confident, whether he can hold firm and keep going. Political propaganda in the form of political meetings must always stand alongside such individual fighters. If we demand political activism of the whole community, we propagandists must ourselves be activists. Activism does not mean being a bigmouth or a rabble rouser, rather agreement between word and deed, between unity and determination of character. Political propaganda may not be confused with advertising. Advertising changes its target as needed. The Americans call it "ballyhoo." The word means making a lot of noise about something, whether it is worth it or not. The art of advertising works this way. Advertising agencies push one thing today, another tomorrow, each time making it sound as if nothing else in the world is worth mentioning. There is no thought of moral or national values. "Ballyhoo" is advertising at any price, with no moral content, no moral thought or responsibility. The Americans made "ballyhoo" against Germany during the World War until the American public finally believed that the Germans were cannibals whose elimination would be a godly deed. "Ballyhoo" is unlimited, arbitrary exaggeration. In a political sense, it is incitement, distortion, and it is all immoral. When we talk about the necessity of political propaganda, we seek powerful moral goals. We want to make our people a united nation that confidently and clearly understands National Socialism's policies, quickly and correctly. We cannot change our political principles as we would a consumer good, becoming random, irresponsible and immoral. We do not want to distort, confuse or incite, rather clarify, unify, and tell the truth. Political propaganda is the highest responsibility, it is a moral duty, a national duty. We may never think there is too much of it, or that it is superfluous." The Source: "Politische Propaganda als sittliche Pflicht"Unser Wille und Weg, 6 (1936), pp. 238-241. Political Propaganda as a Moral Duty