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:
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
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:
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
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