How does me responce relate to any of this???
You lost me.
-sm
--- "Larry C. Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam's responses reminds me of the former Republican
> presidentTheodore
> Rooseveldt's quote in 1918:
>
> To announce that there must be no criticism of the
> president, or that
> we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is
> not only
> unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
> to the American
> public. (1918)
>
> Or H. L. Mencken:
>
> The notion that a radical is one who hates his
> country is naïve
> and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who
> likes his country
> more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed
> than the rest of
> us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad
> citizen turning to
> crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
>
> And the ever popular Hermann Goering:
>
> 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.
>
> Sound familiar.
>
> larry
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