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Its really a matter of "Say what we want you to say or you're frozen out of any information at all." So the good generals think "Ok. Sure. I'm making more in 15 minutes than I did in a month with the Army - and nobody's shooting at my sorry butt. Besides, the morons listening won't know any better."

I remember talking to a older friend. I asked him how his country could have allowed the government to run so rampant? Were not the citizens alarmed by the actions? Wasn't anybody saying "but wait a minute"? His reply was that all the news they got was from the government. So they had no other perspective to go by. And the government was telling them only what they (the government) wanted them to hear.

We're not in that situation any longer - except when it comes to the DoD. They control the information that gets out. They control where the "in bedded" correspondents can go. They're in bed with the Pentagon but its us that are getting screwed. If information is power, they're very powerful, indeed.

And with our "liberal" [sic] media dominated by a very small few (who know which side of the bread their butter's on) it was easy to drown out any faint voice to the contrary.

BTW: My friend was speaking of Germany circa 1938.

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