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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: PBS Series On War
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 16:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 16:33:41 1985
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In article <313@ihnet.UUCP> eklhad@ihnet.UUCP (K. A. Dahlke) writes:
>[..recommendation to see PBS' "WAR" program: seconded!...]
>Any cult expert will tell you that singing and chanting are the first
>steps in brainwashing.  Interviews with marines and their recruiters
>were even more frightening.  Statements like
>"peace is just a pipe dream", and "this civil rights stuff is garbage",
>are disturbing to say the least.

Interesting to see how effectively the leftists used these very same tactics
a couple decades back. Remember "Hell, no, we won't go!", and the like?
Not to mention the bloody violation of many people's civil rights by the
so-called "Students for a Democratic Society"!!

In the military or out of it, it is very frightening when masses of people
subordinate their power to reason to others.

A Soviet writer (egad, was it Solzhenitsyn or Strugatski?) made an observation
to the effect that the average Soviet citizen cannot grasp an idea until it is
presented in rhetoric and okayed by the State.

(Val, this is not directed at you. Besides, you're an American citizen now!)
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill