[Peace] FW: [indict-nato] Fw: Mark Twain on war propaganda

[Marianne Brun]

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Von: "Dave Parry Scotland AB32 6XR" <daveparry at cix.co.uk>
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Datum: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:54:58 -0000
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 The Loud Little Handful
Mark Twain 

The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war. The pulpit will
- warily and cautiously - object... at first. The great, big, dull bulk of
the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be
a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and
dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it."

Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will
argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have
a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will
outshout them, and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and lose
popularity. 

Before long, you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the
platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men...

Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation
that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing
falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any
refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the
war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this
process of grotesque self-deception.

Read an open letter to President George W. Bush from the Bruderhof
Communities on the prospect of war in Iraq.
<http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/IraqLetter.htm?source=DailyDig>

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