This makes me happy, your comment, because it was kind of my intuitive response to the video. Similar to "zeitgeist" and other conspiracy-theory type pieces, they always are engaging and exciting at first, but leave a lot of holes in the plot.
So I really liked listening to her, but don't think that it's all as urgent and dire as she seems to think it is. And what I came away with is pretty much exactly what you seem to be saying - that we should guard against and fight for our freedom and not just sit back and allow ourselves to be under surveilance or held without charges. I don't see any reason to panic about Hitler Junior coming to power. I did catch her a few times overstating issues, too, which made me suspicious. Were people really forced to drink gross liquids by the TSA at gunpoint? Not exactly.
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Re: The Ominous Parallels
Date: 2007-11-06 12:59 am (UTC)This makes me happy, your comment, because it was kind of my intuitive response to the video. Similar to "zeitgeist" and other conspiracy-theory type pieces, they always are engaging and exciting at first, but leave a lot of holes in the plot.
So I really liked listening to her, but don't think that it's all as urgent and dire as she seems to think it is. And what I came away with is pretty much exactly what you seem to be saying - that we should guard against and fight for our freedom and not just sit back and allow ourselves to be under surveilance or held without charges. I don't see any reason to panic about Hitler Junior coming to power. I did catch her a few times overstating issues, too, which made me suspicious. Were people really forced to drink gross liquids by the TSA at gunpoint? Not exactly.