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- technoboy6666, on 10/18/2007, -5/+92No, I will not comply! Exclamation point.
- wootup, on 10/18/2007, -5/+92This was a very articulate, well-worded lesson. You can tell he actually cares about what he's talking about, and if there's something that America needs right now, it's people that truly care about freedom and believe in it. Free Americans need to take back their country before it's too late.
- BleedingHeadKen, on 10/18/2007, -3/+56That's Michael Badnarik, the 2004 Libertarian candidate for President. He cares about his subject, and he cares about *your* liberty as well as his. Unfortunately, we are all taught that saying "we will not comply" to government authorities will get us into trouble. Witness what happened to the Golden Gate High Schools students suspended for violation of dress code when they wore suits and ties to school. It's not about what they wore - it's about thwarting the authority of the people that are appointed to watch over us.
- Lax32, on 10/18/2007, -11/+54As time progresses, the probability of something being compared to Nazi Germany approaches 1.
- jmpeagle, on 10/16/2007, -0/+40Did you even watch the video?
He's arguing that not resisting is probably not the best way to stop yourself from getting your rights trampled on. Many Jews hold this view, Holocaust survivors regret not resisting Hitler. Do you honestly think that anyone who had to live through the Holocaust and didn't resist thought to themselves afterwards (if they survived) "well I wouldn't have done anything differently". - KyjL, on 10/18/2007, -4/+29People wonder why I go to school for this sort of thing (at least as my Minor). I think this is a good reason.
- vfrex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20I don't know why you are being dugg up for making an obvious statement. THE SKY IS BLUE. There, digg me up too.
- Koookie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Godwin's law does not negate the accuracy of the statement in question.
- eximious, on 10/18/2007, -4/+23I respect the message, but even he admits that he's not too familiar with the rise of Hitler. He doesn't even know how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust (let alone mention all the non-Jews that were targeted)? Plus, he says that Hitler got 98% of the vote (... in Austria-Hungary). The last "legitimate" presidential election was in 1932 when Hitler got 30.1% of the German vote.
I'm disappointed that Diggers are eating this up. - jmpeagle, on 10/18/2007, -0/+17wow...just wow. I don't know how you made that logical leap. Talk to a Holocaust survivor some time and ask them whether or not the Jews should have stood up against Hitler in the beginning.
- arcooke, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I wish I would have had a history or government teacher like that. Maybe then I would have paid attention... That guy was great.
- ICSU, on 10/15/2007, -0/+13True Christian?
That's such a stupid fallacy. Nobody is a true Christian according to other Christians calling themselves true Christians. - michaelinnotts, on 10/18/2007, -1/+14I'm in an awkward position. I agree with him, but I felt the lesson was very poorly phrased, the example faulty, and his presentation inaccurate. Firstly, the Holocaust was a genocide of millions of people--Jews were the majority, but too often we forget about the Roma (aka Gypsies), homosexuals, foreigners, and handicapped. Secondly, he skipped a lot of steps of the Nazi attacks against the Jewry such as the ghettos and the food rationing, which were initially justified as ways to improve health/living conditions for all.
I agree with his point, and the hyperbole will make it more palatable to many, but it is still an unscholarly representation of history. - p0tent1al, on 10/15/2007, -4/+17Yeah I gather people have no idea what the parent poster is talking about, and that is why they are digging him down. People need to go watch the movie, Money as debt, and then come back and talk to us.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&q=money+as+debt&total=1103&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 - inactive, on 10/15/2007, -1/+12Wow. I hope the rest of digg doesn't read too far into this like you.
you obviously don't know the difference between someone asking "what would it take for you to stand up and fight" vs. someone telling you "fight because I tell you to do so." - Schmidtopolis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Evidently, schools are not the best place to exercise your freedom of speech/expression. For the most part, teachers and faculty don't teach, they are only concerned with keeping their jobs and the status quo. I realize that you can't blame them for wanting to keep their jobs, but the whole education structure needs to be re-examined so that teachers can have an opinion, and teach their students to form their own opinions as well.
- RobotBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Great-grandchild of jews who fled pre-ww2 germany. The main point, above any other, that they taught us was that fighting for your rights will get you killed. Not fighting for them will get you killed. The only way out is not playing the game at all, and removing yourself from the country trying to kill you. My great-grandparents lived because of that, none of their kin did because they fell into the other two sides of the spectrum.
- michaelinnotts, on 10/18/2007, -0/+10Your failure to grasp the fundamentals of logic impress me. We have got to a point in society where the fear of insulting other races is blinding us to the fundamentals of logic, rhetoric and argumentation. I was surprised to read in Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate that many students fear saying the Holocaust was wrong because they have been taught it is wrong to judge other cultures!
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -0/+10I will comply with burying you. Who cares if it's old. Many of us haven't seen it and since we cannot read your mind and we obviously can't keep up with your level of "in the know" old videos may be posted.
- inactive, on 10/18/2007, -21/+30Also might I add there are very simple things you can do to protest. First off you can start by dumping your federal reserve notes and converting your cash reserves (such as your emergency savings) into gold/silver/other precious metals. Why? Because the federal reserve notes have inflation and your interest on those reserves (paid out through savings accounts) is noting more than a tax on your wealth!!!!!
- omnithought, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Even if he doesn't have every fact right, the intention of his message is clear: we should stand up for our rights and freedoms before they're all gone. It's truly sad that modern political discourse has degenerated to the point where people completely ignore the meaning of what people say and instead find whatever detail they can disprove and use it to throw out everything a person is saying. I see this tactic everywhere I look and it's *****. Time to start standing up against bullheaded obfuscation as well, because those who do that are hindering efforts to retain more important rights.
- defektiv, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11enlighten us with your wisdom, oh wise one.
- michaelinnotts, on 10/16/2007, -0/+8And that is exactly why I left the US.
- shaelen, on 10/15/2007, -3/+11I get your joke, but there ARE those who are blaming Christians. By the way, to be a true Christian means to be Christ-like. How many Christians do you know who are trying to be exactly like Christ?
- p0tent1al, on 10/16/2007, -1/+9WTF are you Rudy Giuliani? You obviously didn't get the point he was trying to make. Go back and watch the video again. I'm not going to spell it out for you.
- thrallie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7I don't think you even watched the ***** video.
- myeyesarered, on 10/18/2007, -5/+1298% of Austria didn't really vote "for Hitler" but for the Anschluss. And only because SA men were standing at the voting polls
- 4t0mik, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10Lincoln also suspended habeas corpus and jailed THOUSANDS of people without trial. Some even Senators. Lincoln by the facts was a more threatening President to our own people....than Bush.
- 4t0mik, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Lincoln himself stated.....if we had to keep the slaves to keep the Union....he would have.
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it, and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also so that"
http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/html/union.htm - Beatmiser, on 10/15/2007, -1/+7Apparently freedom for you means endless rep-grind and attunements....while paying for it.
- onewingedangel9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The Civil War was happening with or without Lincoln, you can't put the blame for the start of the war solely on his shoulders.
- p0tent1al, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10He's absolutely right. And the way things are going, people are going to look back on this video, and wonder why nothing was done sooner.
- ICSU, on 10/15/2007, -1/+7Hitler in Germany
98% voted for him in Austria-Hungary? Which actually ended in 1918...
He's got some points right though. - ch4os1337, on 10/10/2007, -15/+21Since when is Judaism a Race? its a god damn religion. like christianity.. but people don't go around saying "***** christian, stealing all our money for there god damn holy wars on iraq"
- 0zzy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Yes, I hate it when someone calls another out without facts or statements to back it up.
- omnithought, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Well, see, when trying to explain things to people, one must often use previously existing situations as examples so that there is a point of reference that people can understand, and thereby comprehend the explanation. When one situation is similar to another in several ways, then it is a valid example. For instance, your comment could be used as an example to support the idea that there really are such things as stupid questions.
- elnerdo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Because it's godwin's law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law - Gerbil_Juice, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5What is the point of having rights given to us by our Constitution if we're not allowed to use them? Are they just there so people can say we're lucky to have them, but never use them?
- kayakto, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5this is a great speech, even though he messed up some historical facts, this video makes me say "thanks god for usa" :-) (im from europe btw)
- Neiby, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4But irrelevant. The Constitution delineates the responsibilities of the Federal government. Anything not mentioned in it is the responsibility (or right) of the individual States. It shouldn't be necessary to include the right of secession in the Constitution. Any State should be able to leave the Union if the State government follows its own internal procedures to do so. We are a union of individual, sovereign States, or at least we used to be. We'd be a lot better off right now if we still had that mindset.
- chicagobiker, on 10/18/2007, -3/+7The speakers exact statistical knowledge of Hitler's rise isn't really the point. The point is it happened, and gradually in the name of patriotism, and no one resisted until they couldn't.
- Protonz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Thus why Bush is so powerful. We would be more 'prosperous' if the states were more independent, and the federal government was much weaker.
- ctrlv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Chaos actually you're wrong, being Jewish has nothing to do with religion or going to synagogue. There are different sects of Jews, some are extremely religious, some don't believe in god at all. When you're born a Jew you are born a Jew. Jews rounded up during the holocaust weren't rounded up because of their religious beliefs, but because they were considered an inferior race of people.
- chancesarent, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5No, it's the Federal Reserve under Wall Street, if I have my Die Hard 3 history correct
- sensor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Yeah I closed it after he said the Austria-Hungary thing... that was false information... so why should I trust anything else he was about to say.
- Frnnkdlxx, on 10/15/2007, -0/+4I watched EVERY SINGLE EPISODE! then i went back and studied the entire constitution and articles of confederation. and bill of rights. maaan. the power you feel when you can weild the law.
- iantobe, on 10/18/2007, -2/+6and Austria-Hungary didn't exist anymore, it was dissolved after WW I.
- martin2968, on 10/15/2007, -1/+5The point is not to know it but to use it.
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/18/2007, -1/+5I voted for this man for President. Too bad he didn't get elected. Too bad he didn't break like 2% of the vote.
- ShaneApex, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I bet you're childish.
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