More on the Pope's Visit -Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo

 

April 23, 2008

More on the Pope’s Visit

Posted by Thomas DiLorenzo at April 23, 2008 01:26 AM
Since the Pope’s visit to the U.S. is still being discussed here, I thought I’d mention a sneaky act of propaganda, courtesy of the Bush regime, that I caught on my car radio right before leaving the country for ten days. A local radio station broadcast the ceremony for the Pope at the White House. The part of it that I heard was a men’s chorus singing the Hymn to Mass Murdering Our Fellow Citizens, also sometimes referred to as the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Apart from questioning the propriety of singing a war anthem to the Pope, several words of the Hymn were especially obnoxious to me. These are the words that express perfectly the Jacobin ideology that animated the Lincoln regime at the time, and which define the neocons who today run the government. These words are: “He [Jesus Christ] died to make men holy; let us die to make men free.”

Of course very few, if any, Northern soldiers in the 1860s joined the U.S. Army so that they could die to “make men free.” That’s the ex post propaganda that American school children have been brainwashed with ever since then. Today, entire books are written by AEI neocons such as Walter Berns (“Making Patriots”)that urge America’s youth to volunteer to die to “make men free” in, well, in any country the neocons happen to be unhappy with at the time. And oh yes, the people who write such songs, and urge our young people to sing them and follow their advice, NEVER include themselves and THEIR families in the word “us,” as in Let “us” die . . .

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http://tinyurl.com/5ck5x6

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