10-06-2013, 03:13 AM
Jim
So often, if not universally, Hitler's epithet is mad. You cite Shirer's observations to clarify that he was canny. The important distillation of his career on pages 43-44 of Mein Kampf reveal a pattern repeated in much of the strategy of tension, quite possibly including Dallas, Waco, and other milemarkers on the Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four:
"I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down. . . This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty . . .
I achieved an equal understanding of the importance of physical terror toward the individual and the masses . . . For while in the ranks of their supporters the victory achieved seems a triumph of the justice of their own cause, the defeated adversary in most cases despairs of the success of any further resistance."
In the case of spiritual terror, it was applied to Jim Garrison, breaking his momentum in a fusillade of slander
In the case of physical terror, Hit List by Richard Belzer and David Wayne is replete with examples: Domingo Benevidez did not identify Oswald as Tippit's killer--until his lookalike brother was fatally shot in the head.
Waco displayed both: spiritual terror with the long build up of Federal forces and the deprivations and provocations towards the captives, then tanks rampant spraying flamable gas into kerosene lamp-lit spaces buttressed with bales of flammable hay.
In Dallas the Wanted poster, security stripping, obvious crossfire, ludicrous eliminatinon of the patsy--spiritual terror.
Physical terror: the president is publicly massacred in a murderous fussilade and a fluff panel of candy-asses calls it good.
No Communist will ever burn down the Reichstag again; we'll send it home.
The danger of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden is that they rip the sheep's clothing off the wolves of the security state:
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So often, if not universally, Hitler's epithet is mad. You cite Shirer's observations to clarify that he was canny. The important distillation of his career on pages 43-44 of Mein Kampf reveal a pattern repeated in much of the strategy of tension, quite possibly including Dallas, Waco, and other milemarkers on the Road to Nineteen Eighty-Four:
"I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked persons break down. . . This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty . . .
I achieved an equal understanding of the importance of physical terror toward the individual and the masses . . . For while in the ranks of their supporters the victory achieved seems a triumph of the justice of their own cause, the defeated adversary in most cases despairs of the success of any further resistance."
In the case of spiritual terror, it was applied to Jim Garrison, breaking his momentum in a fusillade of slander
In the case of physical terror, Hit List by Richard Belzer and David Wayne is replete with examples: Domingo Benevidez did not identify Oswald as Tippit's killer--until his lookalike brother was fatally shot in the head.
Waco displayed both: spiritual terror with the long build up of Federal forces and the deprivations and provocations towards the captives, then tanks rampant spraying flamable gas into kerosene lamp-lit spaces buttressed with bales of flammable hay.
In Dallas the Wanted poster, security stripping, obvious crossfire, ludicrous eliminatinon of the patsy--spiritual terror.
Physical terror: the president is publicly massacred in a murderous fussilade and a fluff panel of candy-asses calls it good.
No Communist will ever burn down the Reichstag again; we'll send it home.
The danger of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden is that they rip the sheep's clothing off the wolves of the security state:
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