"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--- Theodore Roosevelt

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
--- Robert F. Kennedy

Later in the conversation, Gilbert recorded Goering's observations
that the
common people can always be manipulated into supporting and fighting
wars
by their political leaders:

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.

Goering: "Why, of course, the people don't want war. 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
American,
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."

Gilbert: "There is one difference. 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."

Goering: "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 in any
country."

Nazi leader Hermann Goering, interviewed by Gustave Gilbert during the
Easter recess of the Nuremberg trials, 1946 April 18, quoted in
Gilbert's
book Nuremberg Diary


Webster's dictionary defines fascism as "forcible suppression of
the
opposition, the retention of private ownership of the means of
production,
belligerent nationalism and racism and glorification of war."

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because
it is a
merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini (from
Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor)

Fascism is:
"A fuzzy totalitarianism characterized by selective populism,
contempt for
the weak, fear of difference, obsession with plots, and a cult of
tradition." --- Umberto Eco

"when I was a child they said 'son, quit daydreaming'
as if it was some kind of sin
as if their cold world of numbers & ledgers
was more important than fantasy & vision"

Casey Neill, A Mighty Love, from the album Skree
http://www.caseyneill.org
http://appleseedrec.com

"If you want to read the mystic story written in your future
You better start to write it now..."

Gaia Consort, Secret of the Crossroads Devil, from Gaia Circles
http://www.gaiaconsort.com