Former CIA analyst: US is already in the "fascist mode"

[lebkuchen]

John Pilger, "Breaking the Silence"

"If you say something often enough, that people will begin to believe it...that strategy has been applied with, unfortunately, great success by this administration."

http://100777.com/node/view/567

46:59 to 48:46

[rumguy]

1. yep...Bush is a modern day American version of Hitler

[lebkuchen]

2. "If we remain silent, victory over us is assured."

That's how Pilger ends his documentary.

[mr_hat]

3. I wish Pilger would expose the truth less venomously. >

His abiding hatred for all things U.S. relegates him to the position of preaching to the choir, IMO.

[lebkuchen]

4. Funny, I find his reporting refreshingly open, honest, and documented

in stark contrast to what I see on CNNI.

[grasswire]

5. the abolitionists...

....of the 19th century were urged to speak against slavery with more moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison protested: "I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- and I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and to hasten the resurrection of the dead..."

We are in even greater peril today. Don't ask truth-tellers to speak with moderation.

[mr_hat]

6. My point is, he's limiting his potential audience >

with vitriol, not that he should moderate his pursuit of the truth.

Those whom he opposes know this lesson well.