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. [Falsely attributed to Joseph Goebbels]
Friday, May 24, 2013
Tracking Report #6
A search on Google for the phrase “truth is the greatest enemy of the State” returns 380,000 hits. Bing returns 8,510. These are holding relatively steady since the last time we checked on 12 February 2013.
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