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the battle cry: "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."(8) Another famed Nazi, Hermann Goering, spelled it out in this famous quote:

"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."(9)

Again, our administration seized on this basic truth, stating that the "deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."(10)

Even in the time of the Romans, they knew this most basic method of manipulation:

"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 Cesar."(11)

This sentiment is echoed currently in this modern day executive reflection, "I'm a war president. I make decisions here in the Oval Office and foreign policy matters with war on my mind.(12) I'm sure he would agree once again with that great national leader over in Germany who proclaimed "What luck for the rulers that men do not think!"(13) It breaks my heart to hear our semi duly elected commander in chief avow that "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."(14)

We seem to have not yet collectively found the fire nor the urgency bespoken by Samuel

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