Originally posted by
[email protected] 5 2006, 10:03 PM
I just got a new U.S history teacher, who is a militant fascist, and bush supporter and Im hoping that if I write this paper well that I might persuade him to reconsider his extreme, warmongering, and general right wing ideoligies. Thanks
Good luck with that ;) Most right-wingers are ignorant, hate-filled, xenophobic, religious nut jobs. Not to label or anything :D .
As for the neoconservative idealogy's relationship to McCarthyism, I am not well versed in the subject matter. You may find some good quotes about the propaganda surrounding the attacks on one's patriotism and such as a means for slandering an opponent. Here is one site: http://antiwar.com/quotes.php
Some I find interesting:
"Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely."
-- Senator Robert M. La Follette
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
-- Edward R. Murrow
"Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear."
-- General Douglas McArthur
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official..."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
-- Noam Chomsky
"Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly."
--Senator Robert M. La Follette
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
-- George Washington
"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 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 every country."
-- Hermann Goering
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'"
-- Abraham Lincoln
"To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".
--Nuremburg Tribunal Judgement, 1946
Use them if you want :)