This is from snopes.com:
Psychologist Gustave Gilbert had extraordinary access to the Nuremberg defendants during their trial.The passage below is from Gilbert's classic Nuremberg Diary (1947). It refers to a conversation the two had in Goering's cell on 18 April 1946 during a three-day Easter break in the trial. Goering committed suicide the following October 15.
We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, 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."
"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, 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 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."
_______________________________________What this means for us is that 9/11 was our Reichstag fire; the thing that started it all. I believe there is sufficient evidence that the US government executed 9/11. Therefore, they used that to make people afraid and feel they are being attacked and under constant threat of attack. Then they denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger when we illegally invaded Afghanistan and started an illegal undeclared war in Iraq. Now they are doing the same thing with Iran, Syria, and Pakistan. The government denounces the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. So, what has this brought us? Well, for starters the Constitution has been shredded, the Bill of Rights taken away, and an almost Orwellian police state instituted. If the Thought-Crime bill passes in the Senate, there is no doubt that Bush will sign it into law which will make this officially an Orwellian police state envisioned in the book 1984. What's scary to me is that this quote by Goering was read on the Senate floor as an opposition to Bush wanting to go to war... and the gave him authority anyway. That's sounds like how Hitler came to power in... oh... ... :-(
