Will of the people?

Wow. I've been gone a while. Got too busy to write.

I was emailed an interesting quote today, in light of our current political climate. I truthfully have not run out to verify it but I thought it was interesting.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a facist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This 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 in every country."



Hermann Goering, Hitler's Reich-Marshall, at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII