Category: video

I am pretty sure this is satire, perhaps parody:

When the Prez, who is, remember, in government — is, technically, at the top — tells us “we are the government” and therefore have nothing to fear from government, do a double take. Who is this “we,” Kemosabe?

Voting for or against candidates who then go on to do as they like doesn’t assuage my fears.

http://youtu.be/5qR-SllUwFY

Do you feel better?

A Kickstarter project to revive journalism here shows its colors, providing an excellent summary and historical context to the Snowden whistleblower case against the NSA.

http://youtu.be/UfUi5C7WdrA

Testify:

Oversight is worse in the national security bureaucracy than it is in the IRS:

The United States Constitution is widely misinterpreted today because, in the 19th century, the nationalist interpretation of the document won out. But establishing a nation-state wasn’t the intent of the founders — clearly, if one looks at the debates over ratification in the states. For remember: it was the states that debated and accepted a narrow view of the Constitution as establishing a federation. Not a “nation,” and certainly not an empire.

Two notes of caution: 1. This is a conversation between historian Tom Woods and historian Brion McClanahan, and they are pitching a series of online lectures that I’ve not seen (but am tempted to take a look at: perhaps you will be, too). 2. This is a YouTube video, and many of the comments are not worth reading because ill-mannered and crude.

Nat Hentoff is very clear about this, as is Justice Clarence Thomas: