Comments on: How Long Can the Country Stay Scared? http://electrolicious.com/2004/08/how_long_can_th Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:06:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: leblanc http://electrolicious.com/2004/08/how_long_can_th#comment-4701 leblanc Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:05:13 +0000 #comment-4701 "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism." -HERMANN GOERING, Nazi Gestapo “The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism.”

-HERMANN GOERING, Nazi Gestapo

]]> By: mark http://electrolicious.com/2004/08/how_long_can_th#comment-4700 mark Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:06:34 +0000 #comment-4700 This prompted me to remember one of the most powerful hours of radio I've ever heard--an episode of Joe Frank's "Work in Progress" entitled "The Best" which "juxtaposes historical figures against one another to determine who is "The Best."" . . . the pivotal segment IMHO compares Pol Pot to Charles Manson. Manson is deemed the best because while Pol Pot masssacred people in stadiums, killed everyone with glasses, and emptied cities in a drive to establish agrarian utopia, Manson was able to create intense, widespread fear with haiku like elegance. It's a Mansonesque world of fear we live in today it's just being directed from the White House. https://www.joefrank.com/best.html This prompted me to remember one of the most powerful hours of radio I’ve ever heard–an episode of Joe Frank’s “Work in Progress” entitled “The Best” which “juxtaposes historical figures against one another to determine who is “The Best.”" . . . the pivotal segment IMHO compares Pol Pot to Charles Manson. Manson is deemed the best because while Pol Pot masssacred people in stadiums, killed everyone with glasses, and emptied cities in a drive to establish agrarian utopia, Manson was able to create intense, widespread fear with haiku like elegance. It’s a Mansonesque world of fear we live in today it’s just being directed from the White House.

https://www.joefrank.com/best.html

]]> By: Ariel http://electrolicious.com/2004/08/how_long_can_th#comment-4699 Ariel Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:20:39 +0000 #comment-4699 HA! Amen, Tumbleweed. HA! Amen, Tumbleweed.

]]> By: Tumbleweed http://electrolicious.com/2004/08/how_long_can_th#comment-4698 Tumbleweed Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:08:44 +0000 #comment-4698 Inadvertently? Inadvertently?

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