"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations". Ambrose Bierce
= "Military necessity does not admit of cruelty." President Lincoln, 1863. = "The result has been that an increasingly authoritarian agenda has been sold to the American people by a massive, multi-tentacled media machine that has become, for all intents and purposes, a propaganda organ of the state." David McGowan = "With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the control of their perceptions, and by the uncritical acceptance of the experimenter's definition of the situation, into performing harsh acts. A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority." Stanley Milgram, 1965 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Milgram ===
