- Sometimes, the only way to get a grasp of current events
is to observe what's gone before, and make comparisons to events in the
present. We need to take a very serious look at a playbook from the past
to get some idea of how serious Washington's manipulation of the events
since September 11 really is.
The Pentagon Hawks and Corporate Swine are currently in Hog Heaven. They've
whipped the nation into a blood-frenzy, and are quickly emptying out their
inventory of old weapons, so they can write contracts for brand spanking
new toys as soon as possible. By the time people calm down and realize
that Bin Laden doesn't hate us because of our freedoms, but rather because
of Bush and his father's policies, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld will have
passed a couple of trillion dollars around to all their pals.
How did we go from 'Building a Bridge to the 21st Century', to a 'Crusade
Against the Axis Of Evil', so damn fast? A nation that just two years
ago was trying to bring peace to the Middle East and create a Global Village
is now giving full-scale invasions of Jenin the green light and bombing
villages all over the globe, and the majority of people are seemingly OK
with this.
There's a playbook being followed by the White House. This plan has been
used before. Consider the scenario. A productive society, but one whose
national pride and desire for conquest was weakened by defeats in Vietnam
and Somalia, and a perceived defeat in Iraq due to an inability to remove
Saddam Hussein. A nation with millions opposed to war and leaning toward
democratic socialism. A nation with the strength of arms, but not the
will, for conquest.
If you're the Pentagon or a Bush, how to overcome these obstacles and position
yourself for money and glory once you seize power? That power comes from
the support of the people, and without it, all the weapons in the world
are for naught.
9/11 gave them an opportunity, and they're running with it. Here's a look
at the playbook:
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- #1. Blame 911 on cutbacks on Intelligence and Defense
spending by that Leftist Clinton and his 'softness': his unwillingness
to 'deal with' Bin Laden.
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- "...one thing had to be clearly recognized: namely,
that no resurgence of the <xxxxxx> nation could take place until
we had first restored our national strength to face the outside world.
For this purpose arms are not the preliminary necessity, though our bourgeois
'statesmen' always blathered about it being so; what was wanted was will-power.
At one time the <xxxxxx> people had more than sufficient military
armament. And yet they were not able to defend their liberty because they
lacked those energies which spring from the instinct of national self-preservation
and the will to hold on to one's own. The best armament is only dead and
worthless material as long as the spirit is wanting which makes men willing
and determined to avail themselves of such weapons. <xxxxxx> was
rendered defenseless not because she lacked arms, but because she lacked
the will to keep her arms for the maintenance of her people.
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- Today, our Left-wing politicians in particular are constantly
insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily
results from the disarmament of <xxxxxx>, whereas the truth is that
this is the policy of traitors. To all that kind of talk the answer ought
to be: No, the contrary is the truth. Your action in delivering up the
arms was dictated by your anti-national and criminal policy of abandoning
the interests of the nation. And now you try to make people believe that
your miserable whining is fundamentally due to the fact that you have no
arms. Just like everything else in your conduct, this is a lie and a falsification
of the true reason."
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- #2. Make a resurgence of Patriotism and Nationalism the
number one priority.
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- "Therefore the problem of restoring <xxxxxx>'s
power is not a question of how can we manufacture arms but rather a question
of how we can produce that spirit which enables a people to bear arms.
Once this spirit prevails among a people then it will find a thousand ways,
each of which leads to the necessary armament. But a coward will not fire
even a single shot when attacked though he may be armed with ten pistols.
For him they are of less value than a blackthorn in the hands of a man
of courage.
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- The problem of re-establishing the political power of
our nation is first of all a problem of restoring the instinct of national
self-preservation for if no other reason than that every preparatory step
in foreign policy and every foreign judgment on the worth of a State has
been proved by experience to be grounded not on the material size of the
armament such a State may possess but rather on the moral capacity for
resistance which such a State has or is believed to have"
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- #3. Find the strongest most respected allies to propel
oneself forward on the international stage by allying with Britain.
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- "The question whether or not a nation be desirable
as an ally is not so much determined by the inert mass of arms which it
has at hand but by the obvious presence of a sturdy will to national self-preservation
and a heroic courage which will fight through to the last breath. For an
alliance is not made between arms but between men.
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- The British nation will therefore be considered as the
most valuable ally in the world as long as it can be counted upon to show
that brutality and tenacity in its government, as well as in the spirit
of the broad masses, which enables it to carry through to victory any struggle
that it once enters upon, no matter how long such a struggle may last,
or however great the sacrifice that may be necessary or whatever the means
that have to be employed; and all this even though the actual military
equipment at hand may be utterly inadequate when compared with that of
other nations."
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- #4. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
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- "Once it is understood that the restoration of <xxxxxx>
is a question of reawakening the will to political self-preservation we
shall see quite clearly that it will not be enough to win over those elements
that are already national-minded but that the deliberately anti-national
masses must be converted to believe in the national ideals."
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- #5. Make sure to visit Kindergardens, West Point, Ohio
State University and any other school that will take you. Be the first
President to publish children's books; ostensibly because you love kids,
but in reality because they share your reading level.
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- "A young movement that aims at re-establishing a
<xxxxxx> State with full sovereign powers will therefore have to
make the task of winning over the broad masses a special objective of its
plan of campaign."
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- #6. Don't even worry about objections from the Middle
Class.
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- "Our so-called 'national bourgeoisie' are so lamentably
supine, generally speaking, and their national spirit appears so feckless,
that we may feel sure they will offer no serious resistance against a vigorous
national foreign - or domestic policy. Even though the narrow-minded <xxxxxx>
bourgeoisie should keep up a passive resistance when the hour of deliverance
is at hand, as they did in <bbbbbbbb>'s time, we shall never have
to fear any active resistance on their part, because of their recognized
proverbial cowardice."
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- #7. Throw the hammer down hard on dissent by branding
non-nationalists as traitors.
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- "It is quite different with the masses of our population,
who are imbued with ideas of internationalism. Through the primitive roughness
of their natures they are disposed to accept the preaching of violence,
while at the same time their <yyyyyy>leaders are more brutal and
ruthless. They will crush any attempt at a <xxxxxx> revival, just
as they smashed the <xxxxxx> Army by striking at it from the rear.
Above all, these organized masses will use their numerical majority in
this Parliamentarian State not only to hinder any national foreign policy,
but also to prevent <xxxxxx> from restoring her political power and
therewith her prestige abroad. Thus she becomes excluded from the ranks
of desirable allies. For it is not we ourselves alone who are aware of
the handicap that results from the existence of fifteen million Marxists,
democrats, pacifists and followers of the Centre, in our midst, but foreign
nations also recognize this internal burden which we have to bear and take
it into their calculations when estimating the value of a possible alliance
with us. Nobody would wish to form an alliance with a State where the active
portion of the population is at least passively opposed to any resolute
foreign policy.
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- The situation is made still worse by reason of the fact
that the leaders of those parties which were responsible for the national
betrayal are ready to oppose any and every attempt at a revival, simply
because they want to retain the positions they now hold. According to the
laws that govern human history it is inconceivable that the <xxxxxx>
people could resume the place they formerly held without retaliating on
those who were both cause and occasion of the collapse that involved the
ruin of our State. Before the judgment seat of posterity November <xxxx>
will not be regarded as a simple rebellion but as high treason against
the country.
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- Therefore it is not possible to think of re-establishing
<xxxxxx> sovereignty and political independence without at the same
time reconstructing a united front within the nation, by a peaceful conversion
of the popular will -"
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- #8. Make SURE they remember how evil Communism is by
demonizing China, North Korea and Cuba.
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- "...cannot make any technical preparations for the
recovery of its freedom and human independence until the whole army of
spies employed within the country is cut down to those few whose inborn
baseness would lead them to betray anything and everything for the proverbial
thirty pieces of silver. But we can deal with such people. The millions,
however, who are opposed to every kind of national revival simply because
of their political opinions, constitute an insurmountable obstacle. At
least the obstacle will remain insurmountable as long as the cause of their
opposition, which is international Marxism, is not overcome and its teachings
banished from both their hearts and heads."
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- #9. Keep up the 'with us or against us' propaganda until
a sufficient number of people are either with us, or too scared to speak
out.
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- "From whatever point of view we may examine the
possibility of recovering our independence as a State and a people, whether
we consider the problem from the standpoint of technical rearmament or
from that of the actual struggle itself, the necessary pre-requisite always
remains the same. This pre-requisite is that the broad masses of the people
must first be won over to accept the principle of our national independence."
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- "Therefore, as we can find a satisfactory solution
for the problem of <xxxxxx>'s future only by winning over the broad
masses of our people for the support of the national idea, this work of
education must be considered the highest and most important task to be
accomplished by a movement which does not strive merely to satisfy the
needs of the moment but considers itself bound to examine in the light
of future results everything it decides to do or refrain from doing"
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- #10. Appeal to the lowest common denominator. Appeal
to the anger, fear, and prejudices of the uneducated masses, by using terms
like Axis of Evil. Invoke their righteous spiritual anger by making your
mission a religious CrusadeÉ
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- "The nationalization of the broad masses can never
be achieved by half-measures - that is to say, by feebly insisting on what
is called the objective side of the question - but only by a ruthless and
devoted insistence on the one aim which must be achieved. This means that
a people cannot be made 'national' according to the signification attached
to that word by our bourgeois class to-day - that is to say, nationalism
with many reservations - but national in the vehement and extreme sense.
Poison can be overcome only by a counter-poison, and only the supine bourgeois
mind could think that the Kingdom of Heaven can be attained by a compromise.
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- The broad masses of a nation are not made up of professors
and diplomats. Since these masses have only a poor acquaintance with abstract
ideas, their reactions lie more in the domain of the feelings, where the
roots of their positive as well as their negative attitudes are implanted.
They are susceptible only to a manifestation of strength which comes definitely
either from the positive or negative side, but they are never susceptible
to any half-hearted attitude that wavers between one pole and the other.
The emotional grounds of their attitude furnish the reason for their extraordinary
stability. It is always more difficult to fight successfully against Faith
than against knowledge. Love is less subject to change than respect. Hatred
is more lasting than mere aversion. And the driving force which has brought
about the most tremendous revolutions on this earth has never been a body
of scientific teaching which has gained power over the masses, but always
a devotion which has inspired them, and often a kind of hysteria which
has urged them to action.
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- Whoever wishes to win over the masses must know the key
that will open the door to their hearts. It is not objectivity, which is
a feckless attitude, but a determined will, backed up by force, when necessary"
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- #11. Avenge the perceived losses in Iraq and Somalia
to restore national pride, and claim anyone who doesn't support this is
'with the terrorists'.
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- "4) The soul of the masses can be won only if those
who lead the movement for that purpose are determined not merely to carry
through the positive struggle for their own aims but are also determined
to destroy the enemy that opposes them.
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- When they see an uncompromising onslaught against an
adversary the people have at all times taken this as a proof that right
is on the side of the active aggressor; but if the aggressor should go
only half-way and fail to push home his success by driving his opponent
entirely from the scene of action, the people will look upon this as a
sign that the aggressor is uncertain of the justice of his own cause and
his half-way policy may even be an acknowledgment that his cause is unjust.
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- The masses are but a part of Nature herself. Their feeling
is such that they cannot understand mutual hand-shakings between men who
are declared enemies. Their wish is to see the stronger side win and the
weaker wiped out or subjected unconditionally to the will of the stronger.
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- The nationalization of the masses can be successfully
achieved only if, in the positive struggle to win the soul of the people,
those who spread the international poison among them are exterminated,"
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- #12. Give the unemployed and disgruntled something to
do by massively expanding Nationalist programs like Neighborhood Watch
and Americorps.
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- "The most difficult obstacle to the reunion of our
contemporary worker in the national folk-community does not consist so
much in the fact that he fights for the interests of his fellow-workers,
but rather in the international ideas with which he is imbued and which
are of their nature at variance with the ideas of nationhood and fatherland.
This hostile attitude to nation and fatherland has been inculcated by the
leaders of the working class. If they were inspired by the principle of
devotion to the nation in all that concerns its political and social welfare,
the trades unions would make those millions of workers most valuable members
of the national community, without thereby affecting their own constant
struggle for their economic demands."
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- "The reservoir from which the young movement has
to draw its members will first of all be the working masses. Those masses
must be delivered from the clutches of the international mania. Their social
distress must be eliminated. They must be raised above their present cultural
level, which is deplorable, and transformed into a resolute and valuable
factor in the folk-community, inspired by national ideas and national sentiment."
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- #13. Simplify everything to Joe Six-Pack's level, because
there's more of him than there is of the intelligentsia. Keep it simple,
repetitive, and give them a focus for their anger.
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- "This one-sided but accordingly clear and definite
attitude must be manifested in the propaganda of the movement; and, on
the other hand, this is absolutely necessary to make the propaganda itself
effective.
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- If propaganda is to be of service to the movement it
must be addressed to one side alone; for if it should vary the direction
of its appeal it will not be understood in the one camp or may be rejected
by the other, as merely insisting on obvious and uninteresting truisms;
for the intellectual training of the two camps that come into question
here has been very different.
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- Even the manner in which something is presented and the
tone in which particular details are emphasized cannot have the same effect
in those two strata that belong respectively to the opposite extremes of
the social structure. If the propaganda should refrain from using primitive
forms of expression it will not appeal to the sentiments of the masses.
If, on the other hand, it conforms to the crude sentiments of the masses
in its words and gestures the intellectual circles will be averse to it
because of its roughness and vulgarity. Among a hundred men who call themselves
orators there are scarcely ten who are capable of speaking with effect
before an audience of street-sweepers, locksmiths and navvies, etc., to-day
and expound the same subject with equal effect to-morrow before an audience
of university professors and students. Among a thousand public speakers
there may be only one who can speak before a composite audience of locksmiths
and professors in the same hall in such a way that his statements can be
fully comprehended by each group while at the same time he effectively
influences both and awakens enthusiasm, on the one side as well as on the
other, to hearty applause. But it must be remembered that in most cases
even the most beautiful idea embodied in a sublime theory can be brought
home to the public only through the medium of smaller minds. The thing
that matters here is not the vision of the man of genius who created the
great idea but rather the success which his apostles achieve in shaping
the expression of this idea so as to bring it home to the minds of the
masses.
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- Social-Democracy and the whole Marxist movement were
particularly qualified to attract the great masses of the nation, because
of the uniformity of the public to which they addressed their appeal. The
more limited and narrow their ideas and arguments, the easier it was for
the masses to grasp and assimilate them; for those ideas and arguments
were well adapted to a low level of intelligence."
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- #14. It doesn't matter how much we lie. The end justifies
the means.
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- These considerations led the new movement to adopt a
clear and simple line of policy, which was as follows:
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- In its message as well as in its forms of expression
the propaganda must be kept on a level with the intelligence of the masses,
and its value must be measured only by the actual success it achieves.
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- At a public meeting where the great masses are gathered
together the best speaker is not he whose way of approaching a subject
is most akin to the spirit of those intellectuals who may happen to be
present, but the speaker who knows how to win the hearts of the masses.
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- An educated man who is present and who finds fault with
an address because he considers it to be on an intellectual plane that
is too low, though he himself has witnessed its effect on the lower intellectual
groups whose adherence has to be won, only shows himself completely incapable
of rightly judging the situation and therewith proves that he can be of
no use in the new movement. Only intellectuals can be of use to a movement
who understand its mission and its aims so well that they have learned
to judge our methods of propaganda exclusively by the success obtained
and never by the impression which those methods made on the intellectuals
themselves. For our propaganda is not meant to serve as an entertainment
for those people who already have a nationalist outlook, but its purpose
is to win the adhesion of those who have hitherto been hostile to national
ideas.Ó
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- #15. Trick Congress into ceding War Authority directly
to the President after a major calamity. Centralize power in the office
of President by making a new supra-Cabinet position answerable only to
that office, bypassing Congressional oversight of the military, policing
and intelligence branches.
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- Pass the draconian Patriot Act legislation as the first
step on the road to Total Power. Pass the Homeland Security Act, which
is even worse.
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- If Congress begins to question your actions, simply ignore
them and refuse to show up when called before Congress to give testimony,
like Ashcroft, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush have already done on numerous
occasions.
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- "The nature and internal organization of the new
movement make it anti-parliamentarian. That is to say, it rejects in general
and in its own structure all those principles according to which decisions
are to be taken on the vote of the majority and according to which the
leader is only the executor of the will and opinion of others. The movement
lays down the principle that, in the smallest as well as in the greatest
problems, one person must have absolute authority and bear all responsibility.
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- In our movement the practical consequences of this principle
are the following:
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- The president of a large group is appointed by the head
of the group immediately above his in authority. He is then the responsible
leader of his group. All the committees are subject to his authority and
not he to theirs. There is no such thing as committees that vote but only
committees that work. This work is allotted by the responsible leader,
who is the president of the group. The same principle applies to the higher
organizations - the Bezirk (district), the Kreis (urban circuit) and the
Gau (the region). In each case the president is appointed from above and
is invested with full authority and executive power. Only the leader of
the whole party is elected at the general meeting of the members. But he
is the sole leader of the movement. All the committees are responsible
to him, but he is not responsible to the committees"
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- "Because of this principle, our movement must necessarily
be anti-parliamentarian, and if it takes part in the parliamentary institution
it is only for the purpose of destroying this institution from within;
in other words, we wish to do away with an institution which we must look
upon as one of the gravest symptoms of human decline"
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- What you just read wasn't a modern day political playbook.
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- The text above is from Chapter 12, Volume One of Adolph
Hitler's Mein Kampf.
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- Starting to get the picture?
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- Peace
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