Weltuntergangserlebnis!, 2006.
 Weltuntergangserlebnis!, 2006. “There is a chance for the President of the United States to use this disaster to carry out what his father - a phrase his father used I think only once, and it hasn't been used since - and that is a new world order.” "The history of the great events of this world are scarcely more than the history of crime." -Voltaire "As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may become more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." -Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997, page 211. "In some ways she was far more acute
than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he
happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia,
she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not
happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London
were probably fired by the
government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep the people
frightened.'" -George Orwell, 1984, 1949, page 127. "Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." -Adolph
Hitler
“Various types of belief can be implanted in many people after brain function has been sufficiently disturbed by accidentally or deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement. Of the results caused by such disturbances, the most common one is impaired judgment, and heightened suggestibility. Its various manifestations are sometimes classified under the heading of ‘Herd Instinct’, and appear most spectacularly in wartime, during sever epidemics, and in all similar periods of common danger, which increase anxiety and so individual and mass suggestibility.” –Dr.
William Sargent, Battle for the Mind, 1957, page 145.
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” -Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century, The Project for the New American Century, September 2000, page 51. “This is a moment to seize. The kaleidoscope has been shaken, the pieces are in flux, soon they will settle again; before they do, let us re-order this world around us.” -Tony Blair, British Labour Prime Minister, Speech at a Labour Party Conference, October 2, 2001. ‘‘We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.’’ -Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Back to the Womb: Isolationism's Renewed Threat, Foreign Affairs, July/August 1995, page "If
Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a
foreign enemy."
-James
Madison "Therefore, I have asked Vice President Cheney to oversee the development of a coordinated national effort so that we may do the very best possible job of protecting our people from catastrophic harm." -George W. Bush, altering a long-standing protocol by placing the vice president in charge of all federal programs and agencies dealing with terrorism. May 8, 2001. "The most important thing for us is to
find Osama bin
Laden. It's our number-one priority, and we will not rest until we
find him." -George W. Bush, September 13, 2001. "I don't know where he is [bin Laden].
I have no idea, and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our
priority." -George W. Bush, March 13, 2002. “We must sacrifice our civil liberties.” -Brent Scowcroft, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. “Rather
than being a central aspect of American values, and thus something worth
fighting for, the idea of civil liberties was simply a trick which the power
elite played on the American people to hold out some ray of hope as an
alternate to standard repression. As such civil liberties were part of the
ideology of the middle-class which could be waived at any time. The power elite
extended these liberties to other Americans only when the use of such liberties
in no way threatened the status-quo.”
-Paul
L. Murphy, on William Preston’s Aliens and Dissenters, 1963; in World War One
and the Origin of Civil Liberties in the United States, 1979, page 23. “If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the
Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should
look to limit those guarantees.” -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993. "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." -Friedrich Nietzsche “Of
all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive.” -C.S. Lewis "The intelligence agencies have a long
list of things they want done. They've been waiting for an event to justify
them." -Morton H. Halperin, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, September 16, 2001. “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?” -George Orwell, 1984, the words of Winston Smith's torturer, Inner Party man O'Brien. "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 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 way in any
country." -Hermann Goering, April 18 1946, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, 1947, page 278-279. "The wily Shafts of state, those Juggler's tricks Which we call deep Design and Politicks (As in a Theatre the Ignorant Fry, Because the Cords escape their Eye Wonder to see the Motions Fly)... Methinks, when you expose the Scene, Down the ill-organ'd Engines fall; Off fly the Visards and discover all, How plain I see thro' the Deceit! How shallow! And how Gross the Cheat! Look where the Pully's tied Above! Oh, what poor Engines move The Thoughts of Monarchs, and Design of States, What pretty Motives rule their Fates!.. Away the frighted Peasants fly, Scar'd at th' unheard-of Prodigy... Lo, it appears! See, how they tremble! How they quake! -Jonathan Swift, Ode to the Honorable Sir William Temple, 1689. Be the first to post a comment. | ||||||||||||
