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Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best 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 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. 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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Goering, April 18, 1946

America must not ignore the threat gathering against
us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof,
the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
George W. Bush, October 2002

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.
Joseph Goebbels, March 14, 1943

The controversy over President George W. Bush’s new TV ads featuring
fake firefighters and fleeting images of the 9/11 attacks threw
campaign officials on the defensive.
Newsweek, March 15, 2004

TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged.
Guardian, March 16, 2004

To a viewer, each report looked like any other 90-second segment on the local news. In fact, the federal government produced all three.
How the Government Makes News; Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged News [NYT]

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.
Carl Jung, 1957

President George W Bush has admitted he authorised secret monitoring of communications within the United States in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks.
BBC, December 18, 2005

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