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The weather forecast for Iraq is
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but really Shiite tomorrow and for at least the rest of the year.
which we so need, in this world where it is most often hidden, censored,
removed, or 'slightly changed' to make some soul-sucking bastard
rich(er).”
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but if he was here now, with the north korean bomb and iraq, he’d
probably have been doing more or less what bush is being forced to do-
eat diplomatic shit and walk a sane line.
but here’s the gigantic difference which gives a clue to how the human
race is evolving. clinton would be doing more or less what bush is
doing, yes, BUT HE WOULDN’T HAVE A RABID RIGHT WING OPPOSITION BREATHING
DOWN HIS NECK, CALLING HIM CHICKEN, AND BLAMING HIM FOR NOT NUKING IRAN
AND NORTH KOREA!
see the change?
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Timothy
Leary Was A
Saint - talk
by Fraser Clark.
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Troops Battle
10-Foot Marijuana Plants
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On Shortlist For 7 Wonders Of The
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The 9/11
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The 11
“Big
Lies” Of
9/11.
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Are Violating Non-Proliferation
Treaty
>> Israel is not confirmed it sez
here
some of the blame has to go to the original
five nuclear powers. When the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect in
1970, the 5 countries who had nuclear bombs at the time - the US, France,
China, Great Britain, and the USSR - agreed to work to reduce and
eventually eliminate their nuclear arsenals. 36 years later, no
disarmament talks are taking place between those countries. Quite the
opposite! Human Race suckered again?!
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Long After Jesus,
Mohamed
And
Elvis
Are Forgotten
Talk given by Fraser Clark at Synergy’s Leary Appreciation
Night,
We live today in a culture which is so
committed to the slaughtering of hundreds of thousands of people for oil
and money that it is very difficult for us to distinguish the true heroes
among us who point us towards a very different future.
And, in this sense, it is the people in this club and participating here
tonight who are at the vanguard of this future culture. For if or when
the change occurs people will live like most of the people in this club -
a kind of spiritual, shamanised recreational model.
So my analysis is based on how that new culture will look back on
The Troubles
which it has managed to escape, and who it’s heroes will be.
So first I am going to define what a saint is and why I think Timothy
Leary is one. Second, I shall outline the signs why he will probably
never be forgotten. Then I shall consider why other better known prophets
may very well disappear. And lastly I shall place some provisos on Leary
as a Saint in the sense that there are higher levels than mere
saints.
First, then, how was he a saint?
If you consult today’s dictionary you will
find three definitions of 'saint.' The third, and most colloquial, is
“An Illustrious
Predecessor.” Well, nobody can argue
with that.Leary is unquestionably a direct predecessor of today’s
global shamanic rave
scene. I could even argue that we would not
be sitting here today were it not for Saint
Tim. Yes it would have happened eventually
but it might have taken another hundred years if it were not for both LSD
and for Tim Leary refusing to shut up about it and allow it to be made
illegal or confined only to some small elite as Aldous Huxley and many
other intellectuals at the time recommended.
This last argument continues today. At the
Albert Hoffman
Conference in Switzerland this year, while the elderly professors and
notables in the great hall were lamenting the disappearance of this
wonder drug from academia and the labs outside thousands of ravers, from
every corner of the planet, were celebrating the event in their own
inevitable all-night parties.
I was asked recently by a reporter to sum up Leary’s contribution in ten
words and I replied “He stopped 1984 from
happening”. The Big Fear through the
1950s, until the Hippy
Movement, was that
Big Brother
would take over. It was a very real Fear. Government was getting bigger
and their control technology more powerful and the individual, the
Little Man, was
being increasingly marginalised in favour of
State Control.
The
Beatniks, and
then the Angry Young
Men, were a rebellion against this growing
clone culture but they were very small in numbers and never became a mass
fashion. Like the
Hemingway
generation before them they were basically loner individuals opting out.
They never rose to anything approaching a Movement to
ACTUALLY CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
I joined this early
Alternative
Culture as a sort of
anarchist and
beatnik poet in
the early ‘60s and I tell you when I told people they shouldn’t trust
politicians, that they weren’t looking out for the common man’s benefit,
people would laugh in your face like you were crazy. That’s one of the
huge evolutions between then and today. Now everyone knows about
politicians, nobody believes a word. This is a very positive development.
Like a baby culture growing up.
Leary was a professor of
Psychology when
he found
psilocybin and
later LSD and
realised that the psychedelics were the
greatest spiritual psychological
tools for mental health that we were ever
likely to find. And he stood up for them to the very end. At first Leary
was fired by Harvard
University for refusing to stop his
perfectly legal experiments. Later he was harassed and demonised.
Ultimately he would be arrested and imprisoned in America, only to escape
and join the rebel underground. He then fled the U.S. as a refugee to
Europe and Africa. Leary always refused to shut up about the importance
of psychedelics as the Primary Tool to Save
the World. The psychedelics are still
that. And the world needs their healing insights more than ever
today.
In other words he devoted his entire life to speaking up loudly for
Individual
Liberty and the
Right to Internal
Privacy. As an old man his slogan was
Think For Yourself And Question
Authority. Even a total cynic would have
to admit that Leary,
Acid, and the
Hippy Movement
at least delayed 1984 for 20 years. I think it was forever. Why? Because
the Hippies
never disappeared, they just went out of fashion. And the
Hippy Spirit of Free Shamanic Inner
Enquiry was reborn, in far larger numbers
when rave and ecstasy burst upon the world.
Rave wasn’t
something brand new that came out of nowhere. All through the 1980s I had
been predicting it in my magazine The
Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, and the
reasons I gave were that, having seen the depth of the human Spirit, I
simply could not believe that it had disappeared forever.
So, in terms of illustrious predecessors,
Ken Kesey,
Alan Ginsberg,
the Beatles,
Muhamed Ali and
Elvis were
Heroes - but
Timothy Leary rises a level above, to that of
Sainthood.
The other two definitions of Saint speak of
“sanctus sancire = made
sacred,” and
“pre-eminent for
holiness”. If holiness is to shrug off
your well paid middle-class security and to suffer the tribulations of
working for humanity in the only way you know how in a world controlled
by the dark forces of Ego Power and
Dominance then Saint Timothy was certainly
“pre-eminent for
holiness”.
Secondly, what are the signs that Leary will be long long
remembered?
President Richard
Nixon called our good ex-professor
“the most dangerous man
alive.” Dumb, wily and mean though Nixon
was even he seems to have recognised the saint’s power to affect people,
to move them. I always maintained, even then, that Leary would
outlast Nixon in history. Well, a couple of months ago while seated at a
pavement café I mentioned this to an extrovert friend who immediately
enquired of the very next passers-by, a 30 something couple, whether the
name Richard Nixon meant anything to them. Both looked nonplussed. But
when he asked about Timothy Leary the guy replied
“Wasn’t he some kind of radical writer or
something?”
Within 10 years of his death (which we celebrate today) Leary has
already been rediscovered by an entire generation of ravers who do not
look like they will soon forget him or the drug associated with him.
Jesus, on the
other hand, if he existed at all, disappeared from Public History for 300
years after his death, only to reappear as an adjunct of
Roman
Christianity, the bloodiest Empire in human
history and the lowest human evolution has ever sunk.
Mohamed was
associated with invasions and violence against other cultures even in his
own lifetime, certainly after his death. Today throughout the west he is
unfairly becoming associated with terrorism. So how long he will actually
last is a fair question.
Saint Timothy,
on the other hand, has never been associated with violence of any
kind; though he walked among social lepers,
rebels and
outlaws and
jumped bail and jail with gay abandon. Less than a decade after his
death, he is being debated in underground clubs where the avant garde
gather. And we all know the avant garde is next year’s fashion. Two new
Leary autobiographies are in the shops, one is shite and I advise you to
stay well clear of it, the other is I
Have America Surrounded which I highly
recommend. No less than two movies on Tim’s life are in the works, one
starring
LeoDecaprio.
And now, lastly, I’d like to point out that saying he was a Saint is not
as strong as it appears. Saint
Nicolas, Santa
Claus, was a saint because he was a lovely
nice man who gave presents to children. That’s kind of what Tim was for
us hippies. He was a Saint
Claus because he brought hope and
inspiration to so many people.
But he was not a
Teacher, nor a
social agitator like a
Ghandi for
example, or a
Mandela.
And he was no spiritual
Adept like,
say, George
Gurdjieff, who was a
Master. Leary
pointed a whole generation to LSD and LSD pointed us all to
Higher
Possibilities. But Gurdjieff and other
Teachers actually teach us how to make these higher levels
permanent,
not just something you feel for one night.
George
Gurdjieff taught that we are three brained
beings possessed of equally important
intellectual brains, emotional
brains and
physical-moving
brains. He taught that our first spiritual
work must be to balance all three, and to reach the stage of
Balanced Man.
Then and only then should we develop
our higher centres. Failure to first reach
Balanced Man
will mean our opening of higher centres will be unbalanced. An
overdeveloped intellectual brain (without equal development of the other
two) produces a Weak
Yogi - too much knowledge but producing no
action; or, the Absent Minded
Professor. Similarly, over stimulation of
the emotional brain will produce a Stupid
Saint. And so on.
Tim Leary was a human being of his time, with as many failings and
repressed material as all of his contemporaries. There is no claim to any
superman abilities here, although unquestionably
LSD opened his
higher centres. OF COURSE, he made mistakes, MAYBE he sinned, MAYBE even
seriously. But with today’s communications technology we know more about
6 months in Leary’s life than in the whole lifetime of
Santa Claus,
which includes less holy peoples’ opinions voiced for all sorts of
tainted motivations. We shall never know if
Santa Claus was
a secret paedophile but we know a million details about Leary, many of
which will be untrue. So let’s not miss the Big Picture of the man’s life
by losing ourselves in a mass of shabby alleged details most of which
were filtered through the police system while he was in jail. How would
you fare if the glare of the world’s media was set loose on you.
And especially if the mass of the media was serving Mammon.
And lastly, Tim Leary was not a
Shaman. He was
always the social psychologist, fascinated by the development of human
culture. Terence
McKenna was a shaman. I knew and worked with
both men on several occasions, but I knew Terence much better, as a
friend. When Leary died ten years ago, I sensed very strongly that he
continued to hang around. He is a kind soul, he cares about
Humanity, and he wants to see if his social experiment will pan out over
the long term. When Terence died it was quite different. As a shaman he
flew straight onto the other dimensions without a single glance
back.
I even sense that Saint
Timothy is here tonight, gauging how the
seed which he planted is developing. Hi, I know you’re there, Tim! Thanks
for everything you did for us.
And, Tim? Can you make sure and get me on the guest list?! Thanks!
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“A very plausible explanation
for me is that there exist 'separate, freestanding realities' - or
'parallel dimensions' of the kind quantum physics predicts - that vibrate
at a different frequency to our own and thus are invisible to us except
when we approach them in altered states of consciousness."
Graham Hancock.
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Mr Galloway reiterated comments made by the Respect Party's national secretary John Rees that anti-Muslim racism was the last "respectable" form of racism in our society.
"I see it when I write a blog on The Guardian website," Mr Galloway said. "Hundreds, I mean hundreds, of people who define themselves as liberal pour into the blog a torrent of Islamophobic abuse, bigotry and prejudice in a way that they would never dream of doing about black people, or Jewish people, or any other racial or religious group in this country.
"This is a problem that we must address."
>> in my own experience with the UP! the vast majority of these come from jewish readers. i have one very good jewish friend with whom i can almost not bear to sip coffee any more because he will talk blithely of nuking iran and such stuff. how can civilised people project such stuff and, if they do, is it civilised to just discuss amicably with them?
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General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armoured car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.
"The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices ... and as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa.
"We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them."
Even successful incineration had its drawbacks. "A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hillier said dryly.
One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."
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7 Wonders Of The Modern World
The 5,000-year-old landmark on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, is one of 21 finalists. Today, Bernard Weber, founder of the Swiss-based group New7Wonders, which is organising the worldwide poll, presented Peter Carson, English Heritage's Stonehenge director, with an official candidate's certificate.
Meanwhile, robed Druids, led by Rollo Maughfling, the archdruid of Stonehenge, performed a Samhain ceremony, a Pagan precursor to Halloween that marks the end of summer. Flying overhead was New7Wonders' hi-tech airship, currently on a world tour to visit all 21 sites in the final.
The results of the poll will be announced on July 7 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal; considered a neutral venue as the country has no contending landmark of its own. Twenty million votes have already been received, including many from India (Taj Mahal), China (Great Wall) and Peru (Machu Picchu).
European voters have been slow off the mark by comparison, said Tia Viering, spokeswoman for New7Wonders. She said votes could be made online, at www.new7wonders.com, and via text message to the number 61188.
"Apart from the Pyramids, the seven ancient wonders of the world no longer exist," she said. "People of England, it is now your turn to be heard. Support Stonehenge to become one of the New Seven Wonders of the World."
The 21 finalists for the New Seven Wonders of the World:
1 Acropolis, Athens, Greece
2 Alhambra, Granada, Spain
3 Angkor, Cambodia
4 Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
5 Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6 Colosseum, Rome, Italy
7 Easter Island Statues, Chile
8 Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
9 Great Wall, China
10 Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey
11 Kyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan
12 Kremlin/St.Basil's, Moscow, Russia
13 Machu Picchu, Peru
14 Neuschwanstein Castle, Fussen, Germany
15 Petra, Jordan
16 Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
17 Statue of Liberty, New York, USA
18 Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
19 Sydney Opera House, Australia
20 Taj Mahal, Agra, India
21 Timbuktu, Mali
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'Operation Cyclone'?
This was called Operation Cyclone, it fostered Osama bin Laden and eventually cost $4 billion. The funds created Islamic training schools in Pakistan. Some were sent to the CIA's training camp in Virginia where the al Qaeda of today learned their skills. Many were recruited in the U.S. In Pakistan they were directed by MI6 and trained by the SAS. The winners in this 28-year odyssey are western politicians and transnational corporations.
The truth of these efforts and history are unknown to the American public. Even if fully-explained, half of our fellow countrymen wouldn't believe it. Operations such as 'Operation Cyclone' have been going for years. A good example of this is the 'School of the Americas' at Fort Benning, GA whose graduates committed some of the worst atrocities in the region's history.
This is not Democracy. It’s just a crude form of exploitation.
We have mentioned a number of times that the Bush family was involved with others in financing of Adolph Hitler. George W. Bush's grandfather was a director and shareholder of companies which profited from being a financial backer of National Socialism, which was the marriage of corporate and government interests. In 1942 his company's assets were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act. This has led to a civil action for damages being brought against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
New documents declassified last year show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazi's plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. These profits helped establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.
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well done, by the way, for not buying into the 9/11 conspiracy theory. it was in fact perpetrated, as stated in the daily squirt, by wogs who hate america and us, encouraged bythat evilbloke with a hook who gives piracy a bad name.
brian x. shepherds bush dep't of corrections.
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galen, san francisco.
>> removed.
continue in your myopia.
and, btw, as i've stated many times, i don't rule out that u might be right, i simply remain unconvinced, so i certainly don't "pretend i have all the answers about 9-11" it's YOU who does that.
no hard feelings, as long as u confine yourself to telling me am talking nonsense. go beyond that (like i don’t understand the law of physics or am working for the ruling elite) and i'll accuse u of having a deep psychological flaw :)
one day you'll re-read your email and laff at yourself whether you turn out to be right or wrong.
Fraser, i didn't mean to imply that you're on the payroll of the "ruling elite", but you are certainly aiding and abetting their cause in a large, progressive forum -- your newsletter. I hope you wake up one of these days and understand that you have simply been duped and misled about what happened on 9-11... the sooner the better.
You reach a lot of people through your newsletter, Fraser, you could help stop the coming war before it gets started; but as long as you stubbornly continue to promulgate utter nonsense that serves the interests of the very people you claim to oppose, the situation is pretty dire.
>> claim to oppose, huh?
Since you claim to be "open-minded" but "unconvinced" about the case for controlled demolition of WTC 1, 2, and 7, perhaps you could take the time to watch "9-11 Mysteries". The only reason i have persisted in this dialog with you Fraser is because i continue to hope that one day your eyes will be opened to the truth of what really happened on 9-11.
Best regards,
galen, san francisco.
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“9/11 Was An Inside Job And A “Psy-Op” by Dr. Eric T. Karlstrom, Department Of Anthropology And Geography, California State University, September 20, 2006. http://erickarlstrom.com/Articles/9-11wasaninsidejobanda_.doc
UNFORTUNATELY THIS WAS 75 PAGES LONG (WHICH PROVES NOTHING OF COURSE). SO, IN THE END, I WENT FOR THE CHAPTER TITLED…
1) Using just a laptop in an Afghanistan cave plus 19 Saudi Arabian hijackers armed with box-cutters, Osama Bin Laden fooled the most expensive/sophisticated military defence establishment in the history of the world.
>> OR the Yankee military is really pretty dumb and can never see the trees for the wood.
We accept this official explanation even though no evidence has been provided that Bin Laden did it.
>> but if bin Laden is merely a “fabrication of the CIA” as stated in point 4 below, then why not get him to publicly admit it?!
2) The attacks of 9/11 are the result of “intelligence failures.”
>> nobody on the planet outside Amurika thinks she’s All-Seeing.
3) 9/11 was a “New Pearl Harbor.” Having unquestioningly accepted this paradigm, we are prepared for a righteous world war.
4) Bin Laden and Al Qaeda constitute America’s #1 enemy. We forget that both Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are fabrications of American intelligence agencies like the CIA.
5) Three WTC buildings exploded, disintegrated, and collapsed at nearly the speed of gravity due to the impact of hijacked airliners into the buildings and the jet fuel fires. We believe this even though
a) No steel buildings have ever collapsed due to fires, and it is physically impossible for them to do so.
b) Building 7 was never hit by any kind of aircraft.
c) The planes that hit the WTC 1 and 2 most probably were not the hijacked airliners, but rather military drones steered by remote control.
>> sometimes called the George Did It From His Bath Theory.
6) The Pentagon was hit by Flight 77. And all the debris and human remains of this approximately 100-ton Boeing 767 disappeared because they were completely incinerated by jet fuel fires. We believe this story, even though
a) The hole in the West Wing of the Pentagon is only 16 feet across.
b) No images of a Boeing 767 striking the Pentagon have been shown on any video tape.
c) The fact that, within 5 minutes of the crash, FBI agents confiscated surveillance camera film from 3 nearby buildings and have never released these to the public leaves us ignorant or unconcerned.
>> if i was a top US military brass i would avoid such a shot being spread around every group that hates America. think about it! and think about the utterly demoralising effect on Yankees of such an image. they even banned film of the WTC towers being broadcast after a while.
Expert 9/11 researchers believe that what actually hit the Pentagon was a missile followed by a military aircraft such as a Global Hawk or F-16 fighter.
8) The U.S. government would never be involved in attacks upon “the Homeland.” We believe this despite a long succession of “synthetic terror” events that have been staged in the past to galvanise public opinion to support imperial wars abroad and frighten them into giving up their civil liberties.
>> this point is undeniably true. but discrimination becomes crucial because Amurika is not All-Knowing. it didn’t create the Tsunami. it didn’t deliberately destroy New Orleans using weather technology.
9) The U.S. needs to spend upwards of $450 billion per annum to prosecute an endless “war on terrorism” to defend itself against state-less Al Qaeda “terrorists.”
>> are there no angry arabs? is every muslim perfectly ‘moderate’ with a million dead iraqis? had there been no arab hostility and fightback before 9/11?
We believe this even though
a) the U.N. has estimated there are only about 2000 to 3000 members of Al Qaeda worldwide.
>> all controlled by the CIA?
b) Al Qaeda itself was created and funded and is still controlled by the CIA.
c) Numerous documents prepared by neoconservative think tanks indicate that the goal of the Bush administration is to establish “full spectrum dominance” of the world, i.e., a global Pax Americana.
>> which creates resistance. and fightback.
10) Probably the biggest lie of all is the “war on terrorism”; the notion that the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan had anything at all to do with 9/11 or Osama bin Laden and the 19 alleged hijackers.
>> not Iraq, that’s for sure, but yes Afghanistan, or are we saying there were no jihadi training camps there?! my resistance to that operation was that Amurika was way too impatient and demanding of an otherwise innocent sovereign state.
11) Finally, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still like to believe that the U.S. government acts in our best interests rather than in the interests of its corporate sponsors.
>> few informed, intelligent people think that. nor does a majority in any country but Amurika.
Though each of these “Big Lies,” by itself, is outrageous and preposterous, we accept them because
1) 9/11 was a fairly successful “psy op” against the American people.
2) We have become conditioned by the incessant barrage of propaganda we get from the mainstream media.
3) These lies are repeated over and over by all forms of media in what is called the “echo effect” (Franken, 2004; Rampton and Stauber, 2004)
4) We feel we have to believe them in order to maintain our sense of safety and security. To question these lies means we must entertain some very scary realities. We might not want to learn that our government is a serial liar, torturer, thief, and murderer, indeed, a rogue, terrorist state (Chomsky, 1988, 2000; Blum, 2000). It is far easier and more comfortable to remain in the state of denial, perhaps the most over-populated state in the world.
>> see my last comment.
But the fact is that leaders understand how to mobilise their populations for war. As Hermann Goering, Hitler’s #2 man, acknowledged to an American reporter during the Nuremberg trials after World War II:
“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don’t want war, neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship…. Voice or no voice, 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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
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