My Mother Drunk or Sober

GK Chesterton once said that the form of patriotism "My Country right or wrong" is like declaring "My Country Drunk or Sober". On today's flag day, I offer this group of Youtube videos tracing the development of Our Country.

From the original dream:

(note the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus present as President George W. Bush accepts a visit from Pope Benedict, and this was actually on CNN a few years back)

To this speech by Red Skelton:



To the nightmare that really began back in the 1960s:



That in three short decades became this:



Which has become this nightmare



And this nightmare:



Which of course recently broke into the news as this:



(obviously the people who believe this statement don't understand how VOIP works- retrieving the backbone logs for a given phone call, once identified, is trivial for anybody who actually has the security access the NSA does)

And of course, that finished to this:

The Daily Show
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I will be posting the song that inspired this in a later post- but before that, I will give you a preview of that post with The Brave New 1984- coming true in 2013