Message 5/16
Date: 21-Mar-03 @ 01:33 PM -
RE:
I read that Bush's state of the union on monday night was broadcast at a New Jersey Devils hockey game, suspending the game til it was over. After the speech the game resumed and the fans went into a furor chanting USA! USA!
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
That was posted somewhere here not long ago but it's worth another. Shakespeare had vast wisdom.