Shackles on the ceiling of the skunk works building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGMGkskWTA
Groupthink
Anyone reading this knows that we are conditioned by the environment around us, our experiences dictate how we think. Until one isolates himself from thinking as a group, using logic and reasoning, we can never separate right from wrong:
Pre-emptive strike:
When a gangster and his boys get in his car in the dark and do a driveby shooting and accidently kill the other guys little sister sitting at the dinner table.
War:
When the other gangster and his boys get in his car in the dark and do a driveby shooting and accidently kill the other guys little sister sitting at the dinner table.
A real, win, win situation.
Better get the gang into the situation room; (More groupthink)
A good example of follow the leader: "close your hole, I don't want you on my radar screen".
As George Orwell demonstrates in his book 1984, newspeak is basically reverse talk and doublethink is saying exactly the opposite of the truth; the state dictates how one thinks:
Newspeak
On Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that leaders such as Chávez and Bolivian President Evo Morales who advocate the radical redistribution of wealth to the poor represented a “worrisome” trend in the hemisphere. “You’ve got Chávez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money,” Rumsfeld said at the National Press Club in Washington. “He’s a person who was elected legally -- just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally -- and then consolidated power, and now of course is working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others. It concerns me.
Lies:
"Three years ago during this very speech," your leading spokesperson can say from those steps, "Mr. Bush told us that Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin, 500 tons - which is one million pounds - of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent, 30,000 missiles to deliver the stuff, mobile biological weapons labs, al Qaeda connections, and uranium from Niger for use in a robust nuclear weapons program. He said all this three years ago, during this all-important annual address, and all of it was a lie. The American people deserve an explanation."
Quotes:
"My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober."
~ G. K. Chesterton
War is a racket. It always has been. It is probably the oldest, easily the most profitable, certainly the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one where the profit is reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
--Smedley Butler, Major General, USMC, two times recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed class think they are going to profit from it".--George Orwell, author of 1984
"There ought to be limits to freedom."
–George W Bush, May 21, 1999
"in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility"
-Adolf Hitler
George "The Texascutioner" Bush
—What the residents of
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