Frank Rich's article in the NY Times about the Good Germans will hopefully become a watershed commentary in separating reality from fantasy in our current national confusion.
He clearly pointed out that the people of Hitler's German did little to nothing to stop the decline of their country into the slimepit which they still haven't crawled out of.
When the country was finally liberated, the Germans said "we didn't know what was going on." What they had known, was that it was prudent to reamain silent and pretend they saw nothing.
Of course they didn't have a free press, or a history of 250 years of democracy which would have allowed them to challenge that evil dictator who controlled their country.
We don't have that excuse. We still have our freedom to speak out. We now even have the internet which allows us to say anything we want, to the whole World.
We know what our country has done and is doing: lying to its people and the World. Torturing illegally captured people. Using propaganda, government secrecy and illegal wiretaps to try to control dissent in the country.
We Good Americans do not have the excuses that the Good Germans had.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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