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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-29-07 07:54 PM
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22. What's being compared is what is important
Nazi Germany didn't just come into being over night....It happened incrementally....Reichstag, merging the church with state, merging corporations with state, erasing the rights of the citizens, the demonizing of certain citizens...

History can and often does repeat itself...it may not be pure but it does happen. I now understand that apathy is the biggest enemy of Freedom and Democracy!!

Don't think for a minute people like Rove didn't believe this and pursued it...that's the real crime.

Goerring:

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine 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 to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Hermann Goering quote


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