Great quote from most recent Hunter S, Thompson book

for any fans of the good Dr. or anyone looking to preserve democracy, I would recommend Kingdom of Fear, published, apparently, last year.

At any rate, Thomspon includes an incredible quote from one Henry Ford, automobile pioneer and noted Nazi supporter:

A campaign for war is made upon as definite lines as a campaihn for any other purpose. First, the people are worked upon. By clever tales the people's suspicions are aroused toward the nation against whom war is desired. Make the nation suspicious; make the other nation suspicious. All you need for this is a few agents with some cleverness and no conscious (sic)and a press whose interest is locked up with the interests that will be benefited by war. Then the "overt act" will soon appear. It is no trick at all to get an "overt act" once you work the hatred of two nations up to the proper pitch."

Food for thought, anyway.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040525-113028-7558r.htm

snip beginning crap from the Moonie WTimes ...

Meanwhile, sundry journalists trotted out Nazi themes and overblown comparisons.
Before his ESPN column was sanitized by editors yesterday, Hunter S. Thompson wrote that the prisoner-abuse images were worse than "the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler."
The published reference was later tidied up to read, "worse than anything I could have imagined."
ESPN spokeswoman Ashley Swadell confirmed yesterday that "a portion of the column was removed because some readers found the Hitler reference offensive."

Here's is Thompson recent ESPN column and commentary about the Iraq Prison Scandal ...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=thompson/040518

Yes, sir. We have taken the bull by the horns on this one, sports fans. These horrifying digital snapshots of the American dream in action on foreign soil are worse than anything even I could have expected. I have been in this business a long time and I have seen many staggering things, but this one is over the line. Now I am really ashamed to carry an American passport.

I've been on a HST binge lately, rereading the letters collections until all I see when I close my eyes are excuses to his poor Random House editor.

... fecking ESPN!

That he was a very high profile pacifist in WWI, which is probably the context of this quote.

"Overt act" is a term that became popular to describe the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is likely that Ford was talking about WWII.

Big Darkness Soon Come...
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The Bush family reeks of fraud and bad karma. But even worse than our wretched, gibbling president are the cowardly whores in Hollywood who are currently smearing film stars and music people like Johnny Depp by calling them unpatriotic Americans who righteously question the wisdom of invading a whole nation of Islam -- 1.8 billion worshipers -- which is a dangerously stupid idea. Disagreeing with Donald Rumsfeld about bombing anybody who gets in our way is not a crime in this country. It is a wise and honorable idea that George Washington and Benjamin Franklin risked their lives for. These thieves in the White House are so crazy with greed and power, and they are causing so much drastic damage to the world we live in, that they are the ones who should be put on trial for treason.
---Hunter S. Thompson---


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