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On 22 Jun 2005, at 1:48 pm, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:


> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:33:32 +0100
> "Chris Kaminski" <chris at setmajer.com> wrote:
>> 	"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
>> 	 populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to
>> 	 safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
>> 	 hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
>>
>> 	 -- H. L. Mencken
>
> "Naturally the common people don't want war, but after all it is the
> leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a
> simple matter to drag people along...
> Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
> the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are
> being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and 
> for
> exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
>
> 	-- Reich-Marshall Hermann Goering
> 		Nuremberg Trials
>

Well, if we're doing that...

"The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but 
there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was 
the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All 
subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, 
heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or 
other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps 
somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign 
paymasters, perhaps even - so it was occasionally rumoured - in some 
hiding-place in Oceania itself. "

-R