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Amen Dr. Bob, preach on. As someone who works for the government I see whats coming. They are depending on people like Joseph to blow their trumpet and say nothing is wrong, right up until they have total control of every person in the United States.Originally posted by Dr. Bob:
Losing huge liberties to the "Patriot" Act is an obvious start of the parallel. Increased Federalism, defying Amendment 10 of the Bill of Rights, is another.
Our freedoms started being attacked long before Bush ever took office, and they will continue to be attacked with Hillary or any other member of the establishment in office. There are many dates throughout history when things happened in Washington to futher destroy our Constitutional Republic, 1860, 1913, 1933, etc.Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
Bush will leave office in January 2009.
SOURCEHuxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, before the advent of the Nazi totalitarian state, the more extreme development of the Soviet state during the 1930's, and the Second World War. His version of total control was based on conditioning and drugs, rather than military might and terror. The vision was implemented by principles of mass production and consumption. Thus, Henry Ford was adopted as the new god. Where once there was Christ and his Cross, in the brave new world they had Ford and his Flivver.
It is interesting to compare Huxley's new society with the one George Orwell describes in 1984. Perhaps because Orwell wrote in 1947 after the cataclysm of the war and in full knowledge of the new totalitarianism, his dystopian vision was grounded in terror and brainwashing. While in both societies people were simply clogs of the state, in Brave New World the state provided continual pleasure as a substitute for freedom.
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials"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."
I urge you all to read the book "Icebreaker" by Victor Suvorov.Originally posted by Joseph_Botwinick:
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Does this looney link have anything to do with Bush being like Hitler or with answering my questions about our freedoms, or is it simply an off topic smear of the president?
Joseph Botwinick
SOURCEOriginally posted by poncho:
Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution: Huxley lectures on how 'terrorism' has always been used to 'standardise' and place into servitude the population. This speech was given at Berkeley March 20, 1962.
Click Here For Speech Clickface. Here For Q & A
He is also the author of Brave New World and brother to Julian Huxley a eugenicist who became the first Director-General of UNESCO in 1946.
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931, before the advent of the Nazi totalitarian state, the more extreme development of the Soviet state during the 1930's, and the Second World War. His version of total control was based on conditioning and drugs, rather than military might and terror. The vision was implemented by principles of mass production and consumption. Thus, Henry Ford was adopted as the new god. Where once there was Christ and his Cross, in the brave new world they had Ford and his Flivver.
It is interesting to compare Huxley's new society with the one George Orwell describes in 1984. Perhaps because Orwell wrote in 1947 after the cataclysm of the war and in full knowledge of the new totalitarianism, his dystopian vision was grounded in terror and brainwashing. While in both societies people were simply clogs of the state, in Brave New World the state provided continual pleasure as a substitute for freedom.
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials"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."