A Long Train of Abuses...
This is my video editorial contrasting the reasons listed for separation in the Declaration of Independence against the backdrop of current events.....
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This is too weird...
I was reading my pocket version of the Declaration while doing my business this morning. As I was going through it, I was saying to myself "yep, Bush has done that, and that, and that, etc." I was thinking of putting a post here on DP about the same exact thing. This is just too weird. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
here we go again
...with the mispronunciation of the word unalienable...
please - it is un-a-lien-a-ble.
ps plus you have amy goodman in here.
ppss and naomi wolfe. a little bit better. but not by much.
other than that i liked it.
thanks alli.
Ron Paul is My President
Comments about Naomi Wolf
2 Points:
1 - We are now a small fraction of the population and we need more people to join us.
2 - We need people to join us by arousing their understanding of LIBERTY, and that can ONLY be accomplished if WE OURSELVES UNDERSTAND WHAT LIBERTY IS, FIRST.
There are many posts about Naomi Wolf. Most of them leave me with a sense of the blind leading the blind. One believes that the difference between fascism and socialism is "compassion". Wrong, please learn the DEFINITIONS of the words you fling about. Tyranny has no compassion, pretense 'at the start' does not qualify.
I have met Naomi Wolf, and while she does not (yet) understand the critical important of liberty in commerce between consenting adults, she will not be convinced by those who themselves have only vague notions and sloppy definitions. One thing is certain, her passion and commitment to the part of Liberty that she does see, civil liberty, is totally palpable. I would love to spend a small amount of time with her, and get her some CLEAR notions of how Liberty applies to economics, because she is a powerful speaker and an extremely intelligent person, who could be a powerful spokesperson for Liberty.
Of all the people I've met who do not yet 'get it', the one I would put my money on to understand Liberty and do some good with it, would be Naomi Wolf.
If you reject, condemn, those who do not yet understand Liberty, but may well be on the path, they will not learn and therefore will not join us. History is full of such self-destructive efforts.
I urge everyone to learn the PRINCIPLES of Liberty, and this will never happen if we sit around with loose sloppy definitions, refuse to stive to correct these notions, and "educate" ourselves by watching you-tube videos on 9/11 presumably accoutered with tinfoil hats.
DEFINITIONS, PRINCIPLES, REASON. Without which you will not find the truth no matter the subject.
BTW, this was a wonderful video!!!
great job thank you
when bush talked about the UN meeting in San Francisco, the first thing i thought about was Bohemian Grove.
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Ron Paul Supporter Since 1997
“We have allowed our nation to be over taxed and over regulated and overrun by bureaucrats, the founders would be ashamed of us for what we're putting up with” Ron Paul
Movie
Can someone please enlighten me as to what movie that was that was shown of our founding fathers?
thanks
crazyrustyforpresident
BOOK READ
Also, the book was much more detailed and answered parts of the HBO special that may have been short, and needed explanation. John Adams by David McCullough.
Adams may have been a federalist, but he also saw the importance of individual liberty and States rights, thanks to his friend and pen pal Thomas Jefferson.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
If you are talking about the
If you are talking about the scene at the end with Paul Giamatti it comes from HBO's John Adams series.
http://www.hbo.com/films/...
Excellent, and concrete suggestions
I am giving you input only because it is excellent and deserves to shine brilliantly.
I want the viewer to take in what you are saying about the Communist Manifesto more easily. Please make the image of the CM clearer and linger longer over the image so that the viewer can see plainly what you are showing.
Ditto with the ABC News Inside Account of Eavedropping on Americans, Definition of Domestic Terrorists, and Contributions to Obama and McCain
I would suggest having background music without vocals over the speech beginning at 8:00. I want the listener to be inspired by background music; not distracted by background vocals. Why not let the speaker's face show on the screen, even if only briefly.
I agree with others' concerns about the choice of modern patriots (Ron Paul is a shoe-in, of course), but I suppose there is room for honest disagreement. What about Judge Napolitano, Peter Schiff, and Harry Browne, RIP? I acknowledge that this is minor, however, because the faces barely flash on the screen.
Great job.
Thank you for your suggestions...
however, due to the size requirements of YouTube the video is compressed beyond my control which was disappointing to me as well.
As you pointed out, it affected the Communist Manifesto, the contributor comparison between President-Elect Obama and Senator McCain, and the domestic terrorism law the most, redendering them almost unreadable.
After spending one full day messing with different compression codecs this was as clear as I am capable of making the video under YouTube's file constraints.
If anyone has any suggestions as to enhancing post-production, please do not hesitate to PM me as it would be most appreciated.
Alli
http://SmArgus.com
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
here we go
He isn't president-elect until December 15th after the Electoral College says he is.
Come on girl, you should know that!
I would chop off that whole end part with the tree and itty bitty pictures over the tree. it's like you are trying way too hard to connect the past with the present.
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EXCELLENT! I loved the
EXCELLENT!
I loved the analogies to the founding fathers. How about John Adams = Judge Andrew Napolitano?
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THANK YOU!!!
Thanks Alli for your work. Very good with video and the people behind it. We need more like this to help spread to the masses and wake f#ck up to what is happening to our country.
http://www.campaignforlib...
http://ideas.rebuildthepa...
Thank you for creating such
Thank you for creating such an emotionally charged video showcasing the times we are living in. Nicely done with the us vs. them as opposed to the dem vs repub. Most people still don't get that a class warfare is going on and the significance of what those in power are doing to limit our freedoms. This video is definitely one that will get some people thinking. Thank you too for stirring up some emotions in me. I've been slacking with the politics since the elections ended. Needed a swift kick to continue educating friends and family who now think they get to ignore the government for a few years now that we have 'change'. 70% on that checklist is hard to read. Our freedom clock is ticking. We all have work to do if we want to save this country.
Congratulations...
...superb. Really superb. Thank you...
Ah yes...
Another great presentation from a Ron Paulite.
I wouldn't expect anything less!!!
Great Video.. we need more of these
This is a great video.. we need more of this but with a bit more punch.. we need to better educate. Unfortunately most people have heard of Jefferson but don't even know what he stood for... what a damned shame.
Our republic is finished unless we make a united front. There are more Ron Paul libertarian minded people out there today than I ever thought before.
Since I put on my campaign for liberty t-shirt, people are asking about what it means. They are asking well, don't we already have liberty? The message is that we need to preserve what is left and educate about how we are on the brink of a military controlled society. Stuff that most people think only kooks talk about is right here.
God bless you guys for moving forward this message. It's changed my life and attitudes about everything.
Brock
-"Liberty is the key ingredient of true conservatism."
Unfortunately
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Extremely good job.
A+
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Great Work! I am forwarding to anyone still breathing!
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy
Great Job. I sent the link
Great Job. I sent the link out to my list.
Thank you very much...
currently the video is just shy of getting added to the top rated pages in the News and Politics catagory. So thank you to the Daily Paul users for getting it up there, it is just super cool to know so many of you enjoyed it.
Alli
http://SmArgus.com
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
great work
we are waiting for another one
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Thank you Alli and ...
you are welcome at the Daily Paul!
There are many people whos voices will never be muted..Thank You
An inspirational video that shows we are not alone in this fight. We have many people with voices to be heard:
http://video.google.com/v...
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they
can prevent the government from wasting the
labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
(Thomas Jefferson)
Well done
Thank you for sharing with us. This should be on digg or something more people need to see it.
You go girl
Having read through some of the earlier comments, I must say this. I like someone that can stand on her own, and keep a level head, when in battle. Who sees opportunity where others see only problems.And, does not presume that anyone, who is not already an ally, can only be an enemy.
Good job. The Plumber
Naomi Wolfe is a great American
and I strongly disagree with your criticism of her. She may not agree with everything I say and stand for, but she feels so strongly about very important issues and is helping to wake up others to the problem.
We really, really need her on our side. And we need her to continue to be an outspoken opponent of facism.
If we can wake people up to the danger of facism, with Naomi's help, it becomes much easier to then convert them to liberty loving individuals.
All it takes is an open and mind and a few persuasive ideas. Really, if she can wake people up to the danger of facism, that is 90% of the work right there.
Here's the other 10%, if you're interested: it is a fine line between Facism and Socialism. The only difference is compassion and empathy of the leader of the movement, evil or benevolent. And if you set up a Socialist system, eventually you will get an evil dictator and then to get them out you have to have a full blown, bloody revolution.
A better system of government is distributed power between the federal government and the states, between legislature, executive, and courts. Like what our constitution describes.
Naomi is a fascist.
She is for more government regulation of business and a welfare state. That's what economic fascism is. It's the mixed economy that was essential to fascism and nazism, and that what's she for. It's laissez-faire capitalism that is she against. She may be on Dr. Paul's side as far as civil liberties are concerned, but that's where it stops.
Have your read her book?
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So i should support a
So i should support a socialist speaking against fascism?
Or should i support a fascist that speaks against socialism?
"A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816
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"The disease of liberty is catching." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1820
Exactly the point
Naomi is dangerous because she spreads similar talk of the assault on our civil liberties and restoring our nation and moving toward communism and then scrambles the message with support of Obama. She's a Democratic operative. People who may be on the fence could latch on to her and come to the very wrong conclusion by voting and giving us the same problems in a new wrapper i.e, Obama.
She probably cost Ron Paul a lot of votes and she carefully came on the scene at the perfect moment. There are people who, once Ron Paul dropped out of the race, said they would be supporting Obama. This was the strangest occurrence I have ever encountered. Huge jump required, the two are diametrically apposed. I think it shows we have sheeple in our numbers. They get bits and pieces but none of it sinks in under their skin. It's almost like they wanted to be part of something so they were behind RP, then when the hoopla was over they jumped on Obama's band wagon for much the same reason.
True patriots and revolutionaries can spot these operatives from a mile away. When she spit out "Democracy" I knew she was a plant. She mixes the message. She's probably being paid very well to do this. It's hard enough to explain everything required to wake people up, but this chick gets in and they are back in line following the Propaganda.
If you understand this is a very calculated well funded war and realize from start to finish what she's doing you can see quite plainly she has a very specific purpose; to pull our people into the Obama fold. And we all know it's easy to get sucked into the Matrix and allow them to think for us. We were all there once.
It's exhausting to have as much knowledge as we have. We can't talk about politics in public, we have to weigh carefully who we choose to tell and we have to go very slowly and keep remembering they don't know what they don't know. The media has crucified us by calling us tin foil hat wearers and nuts. People who are in the Matrix know the key phrases and as soon as they hear them we are conspiracy nuts or wearing tin foil. Well frankly we have to protect our ideology from this intellectual warfare. We have to be smarter than our opponent and be selective on who and what we stand for or we get sloppy and have no direction and eventually dissolve. They don't lose sight of their objectives by letting us in and we should be just as diligent.
ladalang thank you for this post, I believe you
are right.
No, you should support a "patriot"
who says and does nothing.
WAY more productive.
My two cent
Both Ventura and Wolf are waking up to the liberty and constitution movement, Jessy does not want boarders which gives up sovereignty. Although Naomi is open, and admits she has a lot to learn especially from Lew Rockwell. That was a good interview.
Jefferson does speak about democracy, but warns uncontrolled it will be our undoing. Sound familiar?
If you take the suggestion to use the Quote from Jefferson, use the whole thing it sounds much better.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
Another two cent worth
Actually you could make a video on the above quote alone.
Welllllll
This has been fun, huh!! I am going to forgive you your small transgression. Great video, except for, well you know.
Wow, is all I can say
Thank you to the large majority of the posters here on the ‘DailyPaul’; I am seriously humbled by all your warm words both here, via email, and on YouTube.
It took me quite a while to assemble this, but it just seemed so plain to me that the abuses suffered then are relevant today. As Jefferson warned, the natural tendency is for government to gain and for liberty to yield.
Thus, we have awoke to find the iron fist of tyranny beating us down at an ever-increasing rate. However, it is my estimation that all is not lost; we can indeed save this Republic before the Plutocrats wholly extinguish it from this Earth,
I look forward to participating here, as we work towards a tenable strategy to reclaim our inherent liberties.
Again, thank you thank you thank you for the warm welcome.
Long Live the Republic!
Alli
http://SmArgus.com
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had the same reaction
to seeing Naomi Wolf in the video, but in its entirety, it is so well done and inspirational, that I did not want to comment negatively about her. I see, though, that many of my friends here have...and I have to say I agree. That woman simply is not of the caliber of 99% of the people on this blog and certainly she could never in 10 lifetimes hope to compare with the likes of Jefferson or Washington. Essentially, I have no kind words for Ms. Wolf. I do not--do not--do not--trust her and her so-called intelligence or her "sudden" waking up to what's going on in this country. The dufus doesn't even know we live in a republic...oh, there I go. See? I have to stop now...Edit her out and it's an A++.
Thanks for a great video!
It was spectacular! A true masterpiece!
You Naomi knuckleheads
Talk about ironic!!!!! You say Naomi is "not on our side" as if this is some college football game. You knuckleheads, ...the FACT that there ARE sides is the problem. Stop for just a moment and look at the big picture. The word democracy wasn't used by our founding fathers and we are still a republic as far as I know.
Alli, I've hated most of the comments you have posted because I considered you a long winded, over educated nut. But after watching that little presentation, I have changed my mind. I was almost to tears thinking how wonderful it must have been in those days to be on the cusp of something so spectacular that it even gave our founding fathers goosebumps. What movie was that?
We are now at the same crossroads that they were and the last thing we need is disention in the troops.
I hate the fact that obama has been able to circumvent every single issue that has been put before him..little things like..a birth cert. but it looks as if the ptb want him in there. Do any of you REALLY think that our opinions are going to change a thing? Do you really think your venting on the dp page is gonna do anything to change things?
It is going to take a revolution before we get this gov't out of power. I don't mean a race war. I mean a civil war (oxymoron) where black and white and mexican and canadian all stand arm in arm and take back the values that this country was founded on. Have all of you folks just totally forgot about the word 'freedom'. We cannot be free when we have 1294 gov't entities looking up our asses with flashlights for so called terrorists! It is time to take action. It is time to stop depending on politicians to take care of your life for you. Become self sufficient and live your life.
Instead of the 10 Commie manifesto, how about we go to my 3 step program.
1. Always tell the truth.
2. Do not violate the rights of your fellow man.
3. If you have a belief in a god, keep it to yourself.
Bang!!!! World peace!
Try it.. you might just like it.
Let's all meet up in washington sometime in late January and at a specified time we aim our weapons in the direction of the Whitehouse. I have a funny feeling that would get their attention and it may be the first time ever the damn thing is unoccupied.
Obama moving his mother in law into the whitehouse. C'mon people, have you no shame? We are about to be the laughing stock of the world.
crazyrustyforpresident
What movie was that - I'd like to see it!
As per rustywhite's request, can someone name the movie at the end of the clip?
Many thanks!
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From Across the Pond, with best wishes
John Adams Mini-Series shown on HBO
it is John Adams
A 7 part mini-series shown on HBO this past Spring
Alli
http://SmArgus.com
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
YES
Also. The book was much more detailed. John Adams by David McCullough
Which I read before the movie came out. Adams was a federalist, but he also saw the importance of individual liberty and States rights, thanks to his friend and pen pal Thomas Jefferson.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Thomas Jefferson
Y'all can stay at my house
I have plenty of room inside and out.
When in the Banana Republic (of Louisiana) just
Freedom is not FREE!!
Call and you have a place to rest your head. I am just now looking at how to get this backwards, brainwashed, uneducated populace to declare their sovereignty. Watch out for the AWAKENING!
This is just my opinion...
but you might wish to start by not holding our fellow brothers and sisters in such contempt. While the sheer lack of education can make on ewant to scream from the top of the hills, "Wake up, wake up, wake UP - damn you!", we must remember that the vast majority (such as myself) attended a government school.
When our nation has been fed half-truths and outright lies for 13+ years of their childhood and young adulthood, it is no wonder so many have no idea just how bad this system threw them overboard.
Patience, educations, and vigilance is our sure path to the restoration of our Republic.
Oh and thank you for the invite :)
Alli
http://SmArgus.com
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well, the jury is still out on Naomi.
I hope she proves herself to stand up against the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party. I have my doubts that she will, but she may. She can start right now...Bush is leaving; Feinstein and other Democrats are already waffling on torture and civil liberties issues.
It makes no more sense to be Naomi's cheerleader now than it does to bash her. Let her prove whether she's an advocate of Liberty or a "good Democrat". You can't be both at the same time.
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The clips at the end are from the "John Adams Miniseries" on HBO
Truth be told I wept at that speech the first time we watched it. Let alone when Abby and John passed away. By the end of the series you felt like you knew them as friends, it was a masterpeiece.
In my opinion it should be required viewing.
Alli
http://SmArgus.com
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Greetings
Welcome to the Daily Paul, please excuse the members here; although we have conflicts from time to time there is one thing that unites us and that's liberty! By the way your website is immaculate.
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong" - Voltaire