{"id":819,"date":"2004-04-24T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T01:03:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-24T18:03:27","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T01:03:27","slug":"lets-play-name-that-statesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/24\/lets-play-name-that-statesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Play &#8220;Name That Statesman&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotation #1:<\/p>\n<ul>The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate &#8230; I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed up before another year has passed.<\/ul>\n<p>Adolf Hitler? No, sorry, try quotation #2:<\/p>\n<ul>This [revolutionary] movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky [Russia], Bela Kun [Hungary], Rosa Luxemburg [Germany], and Emma Goldman [the United States] &#8230; this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing.<\/ul>\n<p>David Duke? No, far too highfalutin for him; last chance:<\/p>\n<ul>I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes.<\/ul>\n<p>Saddam Hussein? Oh, so sorry&#8211;those are all from neoconservative god <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/spectator\/spec280.html>Winston Churchill<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotation #1: The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a national and race danger which it is impossible to exaggerate &#8230; I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}