1950's propaganda: the Reds hate our freedoms

[Enrique]

Run time: 28:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wexMivQi3k   Posted on YouTube: May 09, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 09, 2007 By DU Member: Enrique Views on DU: 1092

 

[bluerum]

1. Well this just made what I am sure was an unintended connection for me.

Red scare.

Reds.

Red States.

[Double T]

2. Reds canceled habeas corpus, Bill of Rights, the Constitution, everyday freedoms.

Our current bushco dictatorship, aided and abetted by the REDS, has resulted in 1950's propaganda becoming our reality.

[Enrique]

3. maybe it's just a dream

maybe we'll wake up like our hero Comrade Donovan.

[Double T]

7. Nope. I just pinched myself and I didn't wake up.

[xfundy]

4. Amazing parallels between the "nightmare"

...and life under *.

[MindPilot]

5. "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" is an indy documentary

about the MPAA. In it there is a news reel clip from the hearings in the fifties that resulted in the formation of the MPAA. Some politician is talking about the communist threat--a threat that was as bogus then as the terrorist threat is now--and makes this statement: "The Communists hate our way of life; they hate our movies; they hate our freedom!"

The threat to our freedom from some outside enemy was the same bullshit propaganda then as it is now. Wouldn't it be great if we had an opposition party that would come right out and say that?

[whistle]

6. Brought to you by the John Birch Society......

...The Bushies and Cheneys and neoconservatives and Dominionists are not communists. They are fascists, each with their own coloration of totalitarian government to further their particular form of rule over the masses.

I remember seeing this film on TV in the early 1950s. Although I was only ten years old I thought it was bullshit then and it is still bullshit propaganda today. Produced by the "better dead than Red" crowd, the very same people who began immediately disassembling all the good work of FDR after his death in April 1945.

[Downtown Hound]

8. This thing is screaming for an MST3K treatment.

[Cleita]

9. Yep, we have been at this disinformation and propaganda

game for a long time. I became aware of it as a teenager when living in Chile in the fifties on and off between going to school here in the states. I started noticing that the same stories in the newspapers here and down there were different in POV, the American POV, being that everthing Russian and communist was nearly satanic. The Chilean POV was that both super powers were pretty much alike in spite of differing philosophies of politics and governance.