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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (265701)	6/20/2002 7:28:30 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Ultra pea brain alert: POW's have no freaking rights you lover of terrorists.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (265701)	6/20/2002 11:21:02 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Living in such a police state, you might easily have been taken in, at least at first, by the professed patriotism and idealism ... "It would have been hard not to be impressed by the great increase in prestige that had followed his transformation ... into a united, organized, powerful state." "Your idealism would have been appealed to by the slogal "The Common Interest Before Self"... "If you were convinced by the barrage of propaganda that "enemies of the state" were everywhere, why would you quarrel with the law that forbade criticism of the state... So you would prudently have held your tongue. Otherwise the Gestapo might pound on the your door in the middle of the night to drag you and your family to jail" "Having suffered through years of unemployment and hard times, you would have been grateful for the jobs provided through vast ... armaments industry "It is the State's duty," Goebbels explained, "not to be led astray by the will-o'-the-wisp of so-called 'freedom of the press'. It must keep control of that instrument... and place it at the service of the State." Verboten books were burned in bonfires. "Un-German" works of art were destroyed. The president of the Reich Theater explained how a true Nazi felt when someone mentioned "culture": "It makes me want to reach for my revolver", he said. -- "Police State - could it happen here", Jules Archer

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (265701)	6/20/2002 11:25:25 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"We shall bestow upon the broad mass of the lowest class the blessings of illiteracy," he told an intimate seriously. He explained: "My system of education is a harsh one. Weakness must be stamped out... A violent, masterful, dauntless, cruel younger generation--that is my aim...I want no intellectual instruction. Knowledge spells perdition to my people... I want them to learn to conquer the fear of death by undergoing the severest of ordeals." They were given the slogan "Believe, Obey, Fight!". "Police State - could it happen here", Jules Archer