A Message to the People of the World - Transmitted by Anonymous

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Run time: 04:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkrqCjhX9jg   Posted on YouTube: February 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheAnonvids Views on YouTube: 1866   Posted on DU: March 13, 2011 By DU Member: LinkUP Views on DU: 657

 
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[The Blue Flower]

2. And then they called him a communist

and he fled America to finish his life quietly in England.

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3. For those who don't know the source...

That's Charlie Chaplain (the silent film actor, in his best non-silent role) in The Great Dictator (1940), where he plays two roles: a Hitleresque dictator, and a poor Jewish Barber who is recruited as a stand-in. At a Nuremberg-like mass rally the barber-in-dictator's-clothes gives this speech.

Of course, the speech was really directed at American audiences at a time when many people were isolationist and a lot of what we call today "the super-rich" and right-wing activists of the time were openly favorable to fascist governments.

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5. Unfortunately, the Cold War allowed those Fascist sympathizers to take over in the West.

The GWOT after 9/11 was used for a further consolidation of power and open destruction of civil liberties and Constitutional protections in America and elsewhere.

Wikileaks and Anonymous is the birth of a grassroots force that is pushing back against Fascism. This segment from Chaplain's The Great Dictator is indeed apt to explain what Assange and Anon, and we all, need to do. Resist. Fight. Don't accept the worsening status quo.

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4. Time to stop believing in the deficit lie that says:

educating, feeding, and maintaing the citizen's of this countries health is a drain on our budget. However, years of wars that kill and imprison innocent people is budget appropriate... Paying for bankers shell games is necessary, but keeping heat on for the elderly and poor are entitlement programs that our deficit riddled country can't afford. On and On......