Quotes For The Damned

 

 

 Here we go again. 

The US and NATO are set to invade Syria under the pretext of Assad's potential use of chemical weapons. This may or may not be true, but this strikes many of us as darkly reminiscent of the Bush Administration's false claim of Saddam Hussein's possession of nuclear/chemical/biological weapons. Assad is no saint as he has brutalized his people before, but aint it funny how the media is so quick to take any bait that the government feeds them? This is the sad state of journalism today, as I see it.  Journalists are, for the most part, nothing more than stenographers for power as Amy Goodman once said. In an ideal world, the press serves us - the governed- & should be free to censure the government, bare its secrets& deception & keep us fully informed. This is not happening which is why many of us have turned to alternative sources for information. 

In any case, it does appear that we are being set up again to go along with a plan to invade yet another country. Lest we forget those who recognized the lies of the State......

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back” - Carl Sagan

 “All governments lie.” - I.F. Stone

"All warfare is based on deception"- Sun Tzu

"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

 “The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned....The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information....With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
― Henry A. Wallace

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