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Anyone remember this BIG LIE? That got your juices up for war?
very short video but worth the time.
Governments lie, ours and others
He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on.
― Robert Anton Wilson, Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
swilton
(5,069 posts)Unfortunately we have too many examples of exhibits - A through Z ++++
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)or refuse to open their eyes.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Never forget
90-percent
(6,829 posts)It's amazing that the propaganda technique known as "the big lie", which seems to have been invented somewhat by the Nazi's, is so remarkably effective. And in common use by our corrupt institutions and Oligarch's to this day.
There are so many examples, many even taking place as I write this. The most magnificent big lies in recent history are the "935 lies" that drove America into the unnecessary war of choice invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
And what is most amazing bout it is that it's pretty clear in the minds of most well informed people on the planet that this was was illegitimate and the reasons for it were outright lies and fabrications.
The whole world knows GW-Cheney-Rice and all the others lied to the world. And everybody knows they all walk free and have suffered no consequences what so ever for their war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Because everybody knows when wealthy and powerful people engage in mass murder they get a free pass and can cause the deaths and suffering of millions of people with impunity.
So we all know there is no justice other than "might makes right". And we're all perfectly OK with it, cuz sacrificing a handful of our Constitutional Rights is a small price to pay for our authoritarian police state to "keep us safe"
-90% Jimmy
Karmadillo
(9,253 posts)Different Bush war criminal and different set of lies, but the principle seems to be the same. No Independent Thought. I wonder if the absurdity of the claim (if you question the ridiculous, transparent lies of the elites, you're a Nazi) suggests fear the system of enforced blindness is weakening. Or maybe the system is so strong, the elites feel they can say anything, no matter how distant from reality. Let's hope it's the former.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laurence-silberman-bush-lied-nazis
Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis
ByBRENDAN JAMESPublishedFEBRUARY 9, 2015, 10:40 AM EST
A federal appeals judge wrote in a column published on Sunday that people who accuse former President George W. Bush of lying about the Iraq War are peddling myths like those that led to the rise of Hitler.
Laurence H. Silberman, a federal appellate judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the idea the Bush administration "lied us into Iraq" has gone from "antiwar slogan to journalistic fact."
"t is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised," he wrote. "It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam."
After re-litigating the case for invading Iraq, Silberman wrote that the charge could have "potentially dire consequences."
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