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Green Mtn (view)

... a few of my favorites of that 'evil doin' ilk ... or am I being unfairly judgmental ... do tell if the last sounds oddly familiar.

“Who owns the youth owns the future!” -Adolf Hitler

“Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.” -Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." - Adolph Hitler

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels (Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda)

"The [government] must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge.... Those who are physically and mentally unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children.... The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years, would ... free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune." - Adolph Hitler

Eugenics sprang from the philosophy known as social Darwinism, which envisioned human society in terms of natural selection and suggested that science could engineer progress by attacking supposedly hereditary problems including moral decadence, crime, venereal disease, tuberculosis and alcoholism.      German and American eugenics advocates both believed science could solve social problems, tended to measure the worth of the individual in economic terms and felt mental illness a threat to society grave enough to warrant compulsive sterilization.      And while Nazi Germany's claims of Aryan superiority are well known, researchers said U.S. advocates of sterilization worried that the survival of old-stock America was being threatened by the influx of ``lower races'' from southern and eastern Europe.      There was also mutual admiration, with early U.S. policies drawing glowing reviews from authorities in pre-Nazi Germany.      ``Germany is perhaps the most progressive nation in restricting fecundity among the unfit,'' - editors of the New England Journal of Medicine wrote in 1934, a year after Hitler became chancellor.

“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA -- ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.”  —  Heinrich Himmler

“There is no doubt in my mind that millions of lives could have been saved if the [German] people were not brainwashed about gun ownership and had been well armed. ... Gun haters always want to forget the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, which is a perfect example of how a ragtag, half-starved group of Jews took 10 handguns and made asses out of the Nazis.” -Theodore Haas, Dachau Survivor

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself.” -Adolf Hitler

“...there was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, `and this will always be the man in the street.' Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology... Hatred and contempt must be directed at particular individuals.” -H. Trevor-Roper (ed), The Goebbels Diaries

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."  — William E. Dodd U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1937

It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them.  — Adolph Hitler

“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.” -Adolf Hitler

"Let us pray in this hour that nothing can divide us, and that God will help us against the Devil! Almighty Lord, bless our fight!? -- Adolph Hitler to the SA in 1930.

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland. - Adolph  Hitler, 1933

BTW, how many of you know that GW's granddaddy Prescotts' firm supported Hitler's rise financially?
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“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.” Wm O. Douglas
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