In article , Harry Krause wrote:

Jim wrote:


Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after
all, it is the 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


Indeed, the spiritual grandpappy of the current Republican neofascists.


Here is a better teacher:

Did Martin Luther really say this or did he plagiarize it like his college
work?

Let's see here... Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarized as an
undergrad (MoreHouse College) and as a B.U. graduate.
In fact Martin Luther plagiarized throughout most of his career.

So please show me how a left-wing extremist downplays the intellectual theft
of this dishonorable man? This should be interesting.

We won't even get into Martin Luther King's adultery, nor his penchant for
white prostitutes. Nor even his close association with members of the
American Communist Party and his long history as a law-breaker.

I betcha that he stole it.

How pray tell is this man a "better teacher"? Teacher of what?

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of
war: ‘This way of settling differences is not just.’ This business of
burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with
orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins
of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody
battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot
be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues
year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs
of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

—Martin Luther King, Jr.