just in ...

[SEATJERKER]

...Just recieved this in an e- mail...

...My mother in law sends me these every once in a while, and being the "Democrat" which she is, just wondering where she's coming from on this one...




>
>"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry
>into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
It
>both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the
drums
of
>war have reached a fever pitch, and the blood boils with hate and the
mind
>has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the
>citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by
>patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly
so.
>How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
>- Julius Caesar

...comments...........

[blues clues]

I understand what she is saying and if you think about it youy'll get it to that's what Bush 2 is doing. and I'm a democat also.
razz

[polemarch1]

This is my first post here so bear with me. I think people shouldn't just blindly follow what their leaders say just because it sounds patriotic. That said the people must also have a certain amount of trust in their leaders if the country is to prosper.

[Keith_Hixson]

Can easily be abused.

Always being a skeptic also has its pit falls.

What America needs is "sound thinking, logical patriotism."

Keith

[Dragon Lady]

Many people who have never served think that we just blindly follow orders without much thought. Yet some of the world's greatest leaders through out history; once followed orders themselves.

To paraphrase something I once read...
Go not blindly into that cold dark night.

[Desdichado]

Originally posted by SEATJERKER comments...........

Caesar never said it. Shakespeare never wrote it. Urban legend. Myth. Lie.