Saturday, July 14, 2007

Lessons from the past

Despocracy USA 2006
A black-and-white educational film details the difference between democracy and despotism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eGkx9cFALo&mode=related&search

Andy Griffith vs. the USA Patriot Act
Andy lectures Opie: "Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law."
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2816011

'Fantastic Four' # 21, 1963
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/338766.shtml

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower this speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16,1953:
https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=23495

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