Sent to me in Spam Email. This is what the other side is spreading. (Barf alert!)

[BigBearJohn]

This propaganda scares me. Pay attention to the last paragraph.
"Best we support them" -- Yeah. Let's make sure we spend trillions
more on the war machine to fight enemies we created. This shit
literally makes me want to puke and go be a hermit in some forest.

The Peaceful Majority
by William Haynes

I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy
prior to World War Two. They owned a number of large
industries and estates. I asked him how many German people
were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me
and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.

"Very few people were true Nazis "he said," but many enjoyed
the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to
care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a
bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it
all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we
had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My
family lost everything I ended up in a concentration camp
and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and "talking heads"
that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast
majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is
entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make
us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of
fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in
history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage
any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics
who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups
throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire
continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb,
behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take
over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously
spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and
homosexuals. The hard quantifiable fact is that the
"peaceful majority" is the "silent majority" and it is cowed
and extraneous.

Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live
in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for
the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful
majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was
peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a
staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not
a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered
its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that
included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese
civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And,
who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could
it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace
loving"?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet
for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic
and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their
silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't
speak up, because like my friend from Germany , they will
awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the
end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans,
Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians,
Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful
majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to
the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our
way of life.

Lastly, I wish to add: I sincerely think that anyone who
rejects this as just another political rant, or doubts the
seriousness of this issue or just deletes it without paying
heed to it, or sending it on, is part of the problem. Lets
quit laughing at and forwarding the jokes and cartoons
which denigrate and ridicule our leaders in this war
against terror. They are trying to protect the interests
and well being of the world and it's citizens. Best we
support them.

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Sounds like Cheney is playing with email again. Totally disgusting

[muntrv]

2. Iraq didn't attack us, spammer!

[SharonAnn]

3. Analogy: Very few people were true Neo-cons, but many enjoyed the

return of american pride, and many more were too busy to care.

I was one of those who just thought the Neo-cons were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything, I ended up in a concentration camp and ....

That's what the analogy is.

[Swamp Rat]

6. yep

[petronius]

7. Exactly - those opening paragraphs are far more applicable

to our current Repulican party than to any outside threat. After all, the 'creeping Nazi takeover' of Germany was a homegrown political movement, not some invasion by "fanatics." Whoever wrote this is a moron...

[NanceGreggs]

4. Yeah, right ...

"They are trying to protect the interests of the well being of the world ..."

THAT was exactly what was said of Hitler and the Russian Communists by THEIR supporters.

"Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their
silence ..." Well, despite the best efforts of the war profiteers, peace-loving Muslims (along with peace-loving Christians and Bhuddists, Americans and world-citizens, and all others who desire peace) have not been silenced by their war-mongering president and his supporters. They are not only relevant, but publicly so -- as they protest in the streets while their so-called 'leaders' cower in their offices, and send others to die in the quest for the profits that ensue from the control of oil fields.

Yes, "history lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet
for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic
and uncomplicated of points."

And the sender of this message has obviously missed the point entirely.

[BigBearJohn]

5. That's EXACTLY what makes me want to puke.

Conservatives are sending this shit out
to the ranks and they gobble it up
and wash it down with kool-aid.

[NanceGreggs]

8. I hear ya ...

... but when you look at those Bush approval ratings, it seems pretty obvious that the kool-aid ain't getting chugged quite as unquestionably as it used to.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Further ridicule of Dear Leader threatens our freedom!

Stop Making Fun Of Him! STOP IT! STOP ITTTT!!!

[Nabia2004]

10. History of this propaganda article.

It appears that the article was written by Debris Trail, not William Haynes. The likely original appears on David Horowitz's satiric fantasies website, Front Page Magazine:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles...e.asp?ID=21447

The last part, beginning with "Lastly, I wish to add" must've been written for the "William Haynes" version. Looks like the propagandist consider the infamous Judge William Haynes a voice of reason.

William Haynes Judicial Confirmation Hearing Begins
By Jeralyn, Section Judiciary
Posted on Tue Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:22 AM EST

As General Counsel of the Department of Defense, William Haynes was a principal architect of policies that led to the abuse of detainees in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush has nominated him for a seat on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings starting today, July 11th.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/07/11/520/54484

The rubber stamp Senate confirmed Williams nomination in December.

[BigBearJohn]

11. Wow. Good find. Thanks for posting this.

[Guaranteed]

12. Sounds like something a fanatic would write.

What's the implication? We should be more violent toward them?