{"id":4516,"date":"2015-12-17T09:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2015-12-17T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:45:51","slug":"goering-knew-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"GOERING KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to call the war-mongering what it is: straight out of the totalitarian playbook.<\/p>\n<p>As Hermann Goering said at the Nuremberg trials:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course the people don&#8217;t want war. But after all, it&#8217;s 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. 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 pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to call the war-mongering what it is: straight out of the totalitarian playbook. As Hermann Goering said at the Nuremberg trials: &#8220;Of course the people don&#8217;t want war. But after all, it&#8217;s the leaders of the country who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}