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Old 04-13-2010, 03:43 PM  
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Originally Posted by mayabong View Post
?If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.?

-Joseph Goebbels famous Nazi
And a simple, easy, cost-effective way to repress dissent is to label the dissenters as conspiracy nuts.
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