Viss retorik blir aldrig gammal - Från Hermann Göring till krigshetsare i riksdagen.
Det finns en sida med citat jag brukar leta igenom när det behövs att övertydligt exemplifiera politikers retorik om att de måste försvara [insert country of choice] eller lagar som bryter mot både rätts- och demokratiska principer.
Har en absolut favorit angående politikers vilja att ursäkta militära insatser och övervakningslagar mot "yttre hot".
(min fetstil)
"Why of course the people don't want war.
Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Göring - 1946, Nürnberg Diaries.
Om ni känner igen det beror det på att det är en variant av detta citat av Gaius Julius Caesar.
"Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword.
It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect.
And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights.
The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage.
Why do I know that?
I know it, because this is, what I did.
And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar."
Oj, tacka vet jag ett kommentarsfält fyllt av intelligens.
Det visar sig att citatet av Julius Caesar är en förfalskning, en "urban myth".
Det var en nyhet för mig och jag redigerar inlägget sålunda.
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Har en absolut favorit angående politikers vilja att ursäkta militära insatser och övervakningslagar mot "yttre hot".
(min fetstil)
"Why of course the people don't want war.
Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Göring - 1946, Nürnberg Diaries.
Om ni känner igen det beror det på att det är en variant av detta citat av Gaius Julius Caesar.
"Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword.
It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect.
And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights.
The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage.
Why do I know that?
I know it, because this is, what I did.
And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar."
Oj, tacka vet jag ett kommentarsfält fyllt av intelligens.
Det visar sig att citatet av Julius Caesar är en förfalskning, en "urban myth".
Det var en nyhet för mig och jag redigerar inlägget sålunda.
Pinged at Twingly, Intressant
Läs även andra bloggares åsikter om Hermann Göring, Julius Caesar, retorik, krig, mänskliga rättigheter, demokratiska principer, rättsprinciper, människorätt, krigshetsare, patriotism, nationalism, riksdagen, övervakning, övervakningslagar, militära insatser
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Postat av: Olof Bjarnason
Käckt ;)
Postat av: eli
Göring-citatet är äkta, men Caesar-citatet är påhittat. Mer info här: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp.
Postat av: scaber nestor
´@eli
Tackar, redigerar inlägget.
Postat av: manen
klassiskt citat :>
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