"I hope you all have noticed the Bush administration's style in the campaign so far. All negative, trashing Sen. John Kerry, Sen. John Edwards and Democrats in general. Not once have they said what they have done right, what they have done wrong or what they have not done at all""
"I fear a secret government. I abhor a government that refuses to supply the Congress with requested information. I am against a government that refuses to tell the country with whom the leaders of our country sat down and determined our energy policy, and to prove how much they want to keep that secret, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court--
And from Dan Kennedy's blog in the Boston Phoenix link
I couldn't help but be struck by how pallid Jacoby's examples [of liberal hate speech] were compared to, say, George W. Bush's attaboy to the guy at one of his campaign rallies who accused John Kerry of faking his war wounds, or Dick Cheney's insinuation that a vote for Kerry was a vote for Osama bin Laden.
Hitler fell in love with his own power. His popularity, his belief in a divine mission, and his ever increasing power provided him with the opportunity to expand the scope of his vision through force - the power he believed in -- to punish the "evil-doers," in his case, the Jews, and to spread his vision of a new social order throughout Europe, and he invoked the idea of a militant, vengeful God - A God preoccupied with "justice Hitler style" against the people he branded the enemy, to do it. Hitler's Jesus was not the Jesus of the Beatitudes. Nor is G.W.'s.
Hitler said, "My belief as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter"who, God's truth was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love, as a Christian and a man, I read through the passage which tells me how the Lord rose at last in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders." (H. p. 39.)
Hitler believed in using people's fears to manipulate them to feel the hatred that would allow them to kill. He believed that above all else, it was the people's terror of death which could be used to motivate them.
All the manipulated intelligence and all the lies and exaggerations members of the Bush administration told in the run-up to war - all the carefully and deliberately crafted words and the images those words invoked to guarantee the people stayed afraid were chosen to do just that. Members of the Bush administration used the words "terrorists," "Hussein," "Iraq" and "9/11" in close conjunction with each other in order to magnify those fears, thus making the people more susceptible to supporting a war out of fear against a country and a man whom common sense should have told them gave them little reason for fear. The administration was so successful at doing this, and the media did such a miserable job of purveying the facts, that to this day a majority of Bush supporters believe Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or significant ties to Al Qaeda, even though Bush himself, belatedly, confessed there was no proof such ties existed. However, the name of Bin Laden is rarely mentioned. To the masses Bin Laden has been successfully morphed into Saddam Hussein.
From everything I have read about Saddam Hussein, he is a lot of things, but he is not stupid. He knew if terrorist acts could be traced back to him we would hit him with everything we had. He had, for heaven's sake, already had a taste of what that might entail in Gulf War I! WE are the country with almost as many weapons of mass destruction as all other nations combined! Who should be afraid of whom?
What his domestic successes did for Hitler, 9/11 did for Bush. The people rallied around him and he became the symbol of this nation. His vengeance and promise to seek "justice" became synonymous in the peoples' minds with "God's vengeance" and "God's justice." His promises of justice and revenge after 9/11 garnered him the popularity he needed to embark on his obsession - war with Iraq. Never mind that we now know that not only was he not a hero regarding the events of 9/11, he was shamefully negligent in doing nothing to prevent the attacks in the face of numerous warnings.
Be that as it may, his threats and blustering, and promise to exact "justice" from those responsible made him so popular that he had reason to believe the people could be made to suspend their own wishes and adopt his. And, we know it had been the wish of the neocons to control the Mideast and its oil since the first President Bush's time. As happened with Hitler, Bush's mission became militant.
Hitler had an extraordinarily messed up childhood. He had a powerful and abusive father and identified more with his indulgent mother. He was absolutely devastated when she died.
"We can now understand why Hitler fell on his knees and thanked God when the last war [WWI] broke out. To him it did not mean simply a war, as such, but an opportunity of fighting for his symbolic mother, of proving his manhood and of being accepted by her." (L. 174.)
Psychologists have opined that because of Bush's childhood - growing up in the shadow of a powerful and largely absent father, and also powerful grandfathers, as well as being plagued by learning disabilities, Bush suffered from an inferiority complex. His overwhelming desire and need has been to "prove" himself -- to succeed where his father had failed - to be a greater "warrior" than his father. Perhaps the ridiculous flight suit stunt on the Abraham Lincoln, aside from being a photo op, was a way of trying to experience the glory vicariously that he might have earned honestly had he actually served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam. In any case, 9/11 gave him his chance to be a leader during a time of attack. The belligerence and bullying which have been a part of his makeup since childhood were custom made for the blustering and threatening calls for "justice" (vengeance) he spouted standing and speaking at "ground zero."
Again, the media has done us a disservice by not even featuring discussions of Bush's psychological makeup. Do we really want madmen running our country? Unfortunately, some of us do.
It is a fact that especially during a time of crisis "the overwhelming majority of the people want to be led and are ready and willing to submit," (L. p. 73.) Again from Mein Kampf, "The psyche of the broad masses does not respond to anything weak or half way. Like a woman, whose spiritual sensitiveness is determined less by abstract reason than by an indefinable emotional longing for fulfilling power and who, for that reason, prefers to submit to the strong rather than the weakling""the mass, too, prefers the ruler to the pleader." (H. p 52.)
"I fear a secret government. I abhor a government that refuses to supply the Congress with requested information. I am against a government that refuses to tell the country with whom the leaders of our country sat down and determined our energy policy, and to prove how much they want to keep that secret, they took it all the way to the Supreme Court--
And from Dan Kennedy's blog in the Boston Phoenix link
I couldn't help but be struck by how pallid Jacoby's examples [of liberal hate speech] were compared to, say, George W. Bush's attaboy to the guy at one of his campaign rallies who accused John Kerry of faking his war wounds, or Dick Cheney's insinuation that a vote for Kerry was a vote for Osama bin Laden.
Hitler said, "My belief as a Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter"who, God's truth was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love, as a Christian and a man, I read through the passage which tells me how the Lord rose at last in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders." (H. p. 39.)
Hitler believed in using people's fears to manipulate them to feel the hatred that would allow them to kill. He believed that above all else, it was the people's terror of death which could be used to motivate them.
All the manipulated intelligence and all the lies and exaggerations members of the Bush administration told in the run-up to war - all the carefully and deliberately crafted words and the images those words invoked to guarantee the people stayed afraid were chosen to do just that. Members of the Bush administration used the words "terrorists," "Hussein," "Iraq" and "9/11" in close conjunction with each other in order to magnify those fears, thus making the people more susceptible to supporting a war out of fear against a country and a man whom common sense should have told them gave them little reason for fear. The administration was so successful at doing this, and the media did such a miserable job of purveying the facts, that to this day a majority of Bush supporters believe Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or significant ties to Al Qaeda, even though Bush himself, belatedly, confessed there was no proof such ties existed. However, the name of Bin Laden is rarely mentioned. To the masses Bin Laden has been successfully morphed into Saddam Hussein.
From everything I have read about Saddam Hussein, he is a lot of things, but he is not stupid. He knew if terrorist acts could be traced back to him we would hit him with everything we had. He had, for heaven's sake, already had a taste of what that might entail in Gulf War I! WE are the country with almost as many weapons of mass destruction as all other nations combined! Who should be afraid of whom?
What his domestic successes did for Hitler, 9/11 did for Bush. The people rallied around him and he became the symbol of this nation. His vengeance and promise to seek "justice" became synonymous in the peoples' minds with "God's vengeance" and "God's justice." His promises of justice and revenge after 9/11 garnered him the popularity he needed to embark on his obsession - war with Iraq. Never mind that we now know that not only was he not a hero regarding the events of 9/11, he was shamefully negligent in doing nothing to prevent the attacks in the face of numerous warnings.
Be that as it may, his threats and blustering, and promise to exact "justice" from those responsible made him so popular that he had reason to believe the people could be made to suspend their own wishes and adopt his. And, we know it had been the wish of the neocons to control the Mideast and its oil since the first President Bush's time. As happened with Hitler, Bush's mission became militant.
Hitler had an extraordinarily messed up childhood. He had a powerful and abusive father and identified more with his indulgent mother. He was absolutely devastated when she died.
"We can now understand why Hitler fell on his knees and thanked God when the last war [WWI] broke out. To him it did not mean simply a war, as such, but an opportunity of fighting for his symbolic mother, of proving his manhood and of being accepted by her." (L. 174.)
Psychologists have opined that because of Bush's childhood - growing up in the shadow of a powerful and largely absent father, and also powerful grandfathers, as well as being plagued by learning disabilities, Bush suffered from an inferiority complex. His overwhelming desire and need has been to "prove" himself -- to succeed where his father had failed - to be a greater "warrior" than his father. Perhaps the ridiculous flight suit stunt on the Abraham Lincoln, aside from being a photo op, was a way of trying to experience the glory vicariously that he might have earned honestly had he actually served as a fighter pilot in Vietnam. In any case, 9/11 gave him his chance to be a leader during a time of attack. The belligerence and bullying which have been a part of his makeup since childhood were custom made for the blustering and threatening calls for "justice" (vengeance) he spouted standing and speaking at "ground zero."
Again, the media has done us a disservice by not even featuring discussions of Bush's psychological makeup. Do we really want madmen running our country? Unfortunately, some of us do.
It is a fact that especially during a time of crisis "the overwhelming majority of the people want to be led and are ready and willing to submit," (L. p. 73.) Again from Mein Kampf, "The psyche of the broad masses does not respond to anything weak or half way. Like a woman, whose spiritual sensitiveness is determined less by abstract reason than by an indefinable emotional longing for fulfilling power and who, for that reason, prefers to submit to the strong rather than the weakling""the mass, too, prefers the ruler to the pleader." (H. p 52.)
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