{"id":409,"date":"2003-03-22T15:41:07","date_gmt":"2003-03-22T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2003-03-22T15:41:07","modified_gmt":"2003-03-22T20:41:07","slug":"telling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"telling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quote posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halfmadspinster.com\/index.asp\">Mary&#8217;s site<\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><b>free speech is what America is about<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course the people don&#8217;t want war&#8230;&nbsp; That is understood.&nbsp;  But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it&#8217;s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it&#8217;s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.&nbsp;  Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.&nbsp;  That is easy.&nbsp;  All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.&nbsp;  It works the same in any country.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Deputy Chief and Luftwaffe Commander, at the Nuremberg trials, 1946 from &#8220;Nuremberg Diary&#8221; by G M Gilbert (Signet, New York, 1947).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote posted at Mary&#8217;s site: free speech is what America is about &#8220;Of course the people don&#8217;t want war&#8230;&nbsp; That is understood.&nbsp; But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it&#8217;s always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[806,803,269,801,802,807,805,99,804],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-adolf-hitlers-deputy-chief","tag-america","tag-commander","tag-deputy-chief","tag-hermann-goering","tag-luftwaffe","tag-new-york","tag-nuremberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}