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| - | ==is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.== | + | ==[Raymond Shaw] is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.== |
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| + | From the movie "The Manchurian Candidate". The squad members are brainwashed by the North Koreans, Russians and Chiness. When asked about Raymond Shaw, whom none of the respected, they all answer with this same statment. | ||
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| + | Viewers of FOX NEWS, HATE WING RADIO and other pundits often sound like they have been brainwashed; this quote is used to make fun of them. | ||
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| + | http://imdb.com/title/tt0056218/quotes | ||
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| + | ==Drinking the Kool-Aid== | ||
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| + | The phrase is used to indicate that someone has blindly embraced a particular philosophy or perspective, usually espoused by some FOX NEWS freak like Bill O'Rielly or Chickenhawk Sean Hanity. | ||
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| + | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22 | ||
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"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"
Howard Zinn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
http://howardzinn.org/default/
Theodore Roosevelt
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.” Theodore Roosevelt
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
[Raymond Shaw] is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.
From the movie "The Manchurian Candidate". The squad members are brainwashed by the North Koreans, Russians and Chiness. When asked about Raymond Shaw, whom none of the respected, they all answer with this same statment.
Viewers of FOX NEWS, HATE WING RADIO and other pundits often sound like they have been brainwashed; this quote is used to make fun of them.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0056218/quotes
Drinking the Kool-Aid
The phrase is used to indicate that someone has blindly embraced a particular philosophy or perspective, usually espoused by some FOX NEWS freak like Bill O'Rielly or Chickenhawk Sean Hanity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool-Aid#.22Drinking_the_Kool-Aid.22
