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Demonstrating for Freedom (3800 words) |
 | Americans are taught in school and by the media -- especially by Hollywood -- that in the Second World War the Americans fought the Nazis to free the German people and the rest of Europe from the tyranny imposed by Hitler. |
| Americans have been taught that anyone who refused to give the Roman salute or to say "Heil Hitler!" on appropriate occasions was in danger of being shot by the Gestapo. |
| Americans have been shown pictures of Germans throwing books on bonfires, and they have been told that these were books confiscated from Germans, that the Nazis were basically "book burners" who consigned to the flames anything they didn't agree with. |
| American Dissident Voices (2892 words) |
| The attitude used to be that our government could do whatever it wanted to do against the people of other countries, and Americans could enjoy the spectacle on TV from the comfort of their living rooms, watching the bombs falling and buildings burning while sipping their beer and munching potato chips. |
| Americans felt invulnerable, and the feeling of invulnerability led to a diminished sense of responsibility. |
| Even Americans who disapproved strongly of the bombing of Belgrade by Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton two years ago didn't disapprove as strongly as they would have if it had seemed more real to them, instead of just a spectacle on TV. |
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