A quote from an unlikely source

[unixronin]

With regard to Homeland Security, the Bush administration, and its current assertion that criticism of the government is sedition and that protesting the war in Iraq is at best unpatriotic, if not actual terrorism, I offer the following quotation from Hermann Goering, from his testimony during the Nuremberg war trials in 1945:

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.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

He - or his administration - is now apparently calling a lot of people terrorists, and apparently lumping bloggers critical of his policies into the same bucket.