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

[Alfred Kagan]

Perhaps we have a different dynamic going on this time.  I think our 
movement is growing.

At 7:12 PM +0100 1/7/03, Marianne Brun wrote:
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>  The Loud Little Handful
>Mark Twain
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>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.
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Al Kagan
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