It goes without saying that the National Socialist revolution, which is modern and intent on action, as well as the popular upheaval we have led, must change abstract and lifeless methods in the radio. The old regime was content simply to fill empty offices or change the faces, without however changing the spirit and content of public life. We on the other hand intend a principled transformation in the worldview of our entire society, a revolution of the greatest possible extent that will leave nothing out, changing the life of our nation in every regard.
This process, which has been visible to the layman in the last six months, was naturally not random. It was systematically prepared and organized. We have used our power in the last six months to carry out this transformation. We spent the period before 30 January in winning power, having then the same goals that we have carried out in the six months since we took power.
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio and the airplane. It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio.
-Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propaganda Minister, "The Radio as the Eighth Great Power," 1933
Of course, the Nazis haven't been the only people to use radio to spread their ideology of hate. Beginning in 1992, Radio Rwanda began broadcasting anti-Tutsi lies, accusing them of unprovoked killings and stirring up ethnic hatred among the Hutus. What began as political cover for a corrupt government losing popularity and with it power, ended as a genocide with radio stations broadcasting the locations of Tutsis in hiding. Radio in Rwanda has since been referred to as "Radio Hate."
You see where this is going, a lunatic shooting up a church Sunday.
A man who the police say entered a Unitarian church in Knoxville during Sunday services and shot 8 people, killing two, was motivated by a hatred for liberals and homosexuals, Chief Sterling P. Owen IV of the Knoxville Police Department said Monday.
"It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement," Chief Owen said of the suspect, Jim D. Adkisson, 58. "We have recovered a four-page letter in which he describes his feelings and the reason that he claims he committed these offenses."
The letter hasn't been released to the public, but United Press International reports the shooter's reading list; "Investigators said they found copies of Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder by radio talk show host Michael Savage, Let Freedom Ring by radio and TV host Sean Hannity, and The O'Reilly Factor, by radio and TV host Bill O'Reilly." The title by Savage is unintentionally ironic -- clearly, Adkisson is a madman. And a right winger...
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