thank-you, lisa walsh thomas, for this quote:

"our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear

- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor

- with the cry of grave national emergency.  always there

has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous

foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did

not blindly rally behind it."

 

general douglas macarthur, 1957