his government office to do so. Pollock believed that because the United States is “a Christian Nation…the time for the introduction of this or a similar motto, is propitious and appropriate. ’Tis an hour of National peril and danger—an hour when man’s strength is weakness—when our strength and our nation’s salvation, must be in the God of Battles.”65 Pollock could not have been more explicit about desiring to take advantage of the nation’s fear. He went so far as to declare the war lucky, “propitious.” Fear is a friend to those who would violate inalienable rights, including the right to a
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